The Scarlet Letter The Struggle for the Soul of Arthur Dimmesdale
Arthur Dimmesdale's soul was jeopardized by Roger Chillingworth's intentions, which were to ruin him, but his only messiah, is Pearl. Dimmesdale must embrace Pearl as his daughter and publicly confess to be free from his self-inflicted torture.
Arthur Dimmesdale's soul was placed in jeopardy since we first saw him. He foreshadowed to Hester Prynne about what the effect of her silence would do to him. He said, "What can thy silence do for him, except it tempt him - yea, compel him, as it were - to add hypocrisy to sin?...." pg.62. His sin, as plainly put, was that he had committed adu
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