The Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is a main character in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is a Puritan. Puritan Society was a theocracy and therefore the bible was a strict guide to Puritan life and is interpreted very literally. In this novel, Dimmesdale has sinned. This is ironic as he is a pure, God-loving Reverend. He sinned against Hester and the townspeople; he sinned against God and sinned against himself. His sin against himself led to his eventual death at the end of the novel. In the novel Hawthorne wrote, 'He thus typified the constant introspection wherewith he…
