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Monster Essays - The Scarlet Letter: Dimmersdale is a Coward and a
Hypocrite
The Scarlet Letter: Dimmersdale is a Coward and a Hypocrite
"But (Hester) is not the protagonist; the chief actor, and the tragedy of
The Scarlet Letter is not her tragedy, but Dimmesdales. He it was whom the
sorrows of death encompassed_.. His public confession is one of the noblest
climaxes of tragic literature."
This statement by Randall Stewart does not contain the same ideas that I
believed were contained within The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
I, on the contrary to Stewart's statement, think Dimmesdale is a coward and
a hypocrite. Worse, he is a self-confessed coward and hypocrite. He
knows....
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