"Dimmesdale was a person of very striking aspect, with a white,

lofty, and impending brow, large, brown, melancholy eyes, and a mouth which, unless when he forcibly compressed it, was apt to be tremulous, expressing both nervous sensibility and a vast power of self-restraint. Notwithstanding his high native gifts and scholar-like attainments, there was an air about this young minister - an apprehensive, a startled, a half-frightened look-as of being who felt himself quite astray and at a loss in the pathway of human existence, and could only be at ease in some seclusion of his own. Therefore, so far as his duties would permit, he trod in the shadowy by-paths, and thus kept himself simple and childlike; coming forth, when occasion was, with a freshness, and fragrance, and dewy purity of thought, which, as many people said, affected them like th

air with which he kept his pace in the procession. There was no feebleness of step, as at other times; his frame was not bent; nor did hid hand rest ominously upon his heart.

Throughout the novel, Dimmesdale's character changed very dramatically. At first he was a person that was very afraid, had melancholy eyes, tremulous mouth, self-restrain, and a striking aspect. "He was a person of very striking aspect, with a white, lofty, and impending brow, large, brown, melancholy eyes, and a mouth which, unless when he forcibly compressed it, has apt to be tremulous, expressing both nervous sensibility and a vast power of self-restraint."(Hawthorne 47)

In any case, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is not God, because he made one flaw that he could not publicly acknowledge that he committed adultery with Hester Prynne and is the father of her little girl, Pearl. Adultery, however, is not Dimmesdales worst sin. But in fact, his greatest sin is not revealing that he is the fellow adulterer with Hester.

him and then he gets the largest guilt of all time. Also through the years Dimmesdale becomes sick and weak from the guilt.

"People of New England, ye that have loved me! - ye, that have deemed me holy! - behold me here, the one sinner of the world! At last! - at last! - I stand upon the spot where, seven years since, I should have stood..." (Hawthorne 175)

"As the ranks of military men and civil fathers moved onward, all eyes were turned towards the point where the minister was seen to approach among them. The shout died into a murmur, as one portion of the crowd after another obtained a glimpse of him. How feeble and pale he looked, amid all his triumph! The energy - or say, rather, the inspiration which had held him up, until he should have delivered the sacred message that had brought its own strength along with it from heaven - was withdrawn, now that it had so faithfully performed its office. The glow, which they had just before beheld burning on his cheek, was extinguished, like a flame that sinks down hopelessly among the late decaying embers. It seemed hardly the face of a man alive, with such a death-like hue: it was hardly a man with life in him, that tottered on his path so ne

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