Let's talk about Dimmesdale. When he tells Hester in the woods he can't forgive her, I just want to smack him. Seriously? Look what she has done for you!! And now you can't forgive her. GRRRR. I think Pearl's judge of Dimmesdale's character is spot on.
I agree. What falt does she have? It takes two to tango and he is just as guilty as she is. You can't blame her for what you did. I just think he dosen't want to take responsibility for his true actions.
ReplyDeleteDimmesdale is a weak character from the beginning of the book near to the very end. He chooses to hide his secret of little Pearl and allow Hester to be alienated, her character utterly ruined, and for Pearl to be considered a demon child as the father was thought to be evil. He is pained by his secret more than he is pained by her or Pearls suffering, he is on the brink of a mental breakdown upon meeting her in the woods and of all things uplifted by the person whose life HE ruined. The fact that Hester chooses to "make" him forgive her was of her own desire to be relieved of the sin of her lie knowing who Chillingsworth was. She also recognized that his agony was so deeply founded he needed to begin the road of repair through forgiveness of her, of himself, and for their sinful action seven years prior. She is desperate to begin another life as well and perhaps out of her own desperation saw him as the only person who she could have ever reached out to as a potential love.
ReplyDeleteI feel that because men have ego such as that of being superior to that of women, so when the woman has betrayed him everything he has done is nothing for he is a man, and a man of God no less. it Just made me mad that he blamed her and made her out to be the bad guy.
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