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Adultery, in societies around the world, is believed to be one of many major _x000D_
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transgressions. Penalties for adultery sometimes include death or imprisonment, along _x000D_
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with guilt suffering. In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, adultery is a _x000D_
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blunder made by Arthur Dimmsdale, a famous minister in Boston. Reverend Dimmsdale _x000D_
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suffers greatly from his guilt which causes him to be very emotional and punish himself; _x000D_
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although, his sermons during this time were profoundly motivational._x000D_
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Arthur Dimmsdale suffers from many emotions after committing adultery: two of _x000D_
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which being grief and guilt. First, grief occurs because he knows he has done wrong but _x000D_
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cannot change it. For example, Dimmsdale says Of penance, I have had enough (129). _x000D_
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In this passage Hawthorne uses the word penance meaning that Dimmsdale shows _x000D_
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sorrow for his wrong doing. Similarly, guilt also occurs within Dimmsdale. In many _x000D_
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instances Reverend Dimmsdale confesses he is a sinner too, but his congregation thinks _x000D_
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even more of him. They heard it all, and did but reverence him the more. _x000D_
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Consequently, his grief and guilt of his sin was overwhelming. _x000D_
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Next, even though Arthur Dimmsdale is a pastor, his self-discipline fizzles from _x000D_
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time to time and prevails the rest. The pastor, unwed to Hester, loves her and conceives a _x000D_
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child with her but punishes himself later for it. First, shortly after Hester tells Dimmsdale _x000D_
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who his physician really is, evidence of their love is revealed. What we did had a _x000D_
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consecration of its own. We felt it so! We said so to each other (131). It is now known _x000D_
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that Hester and the reverend had love for each other. Furthermore, after Dimmsdale and _x000D_
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Hester fall in love, they are once again defeated by sin and have a child. Again, _x000D_
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Reverend Dimmsdales self-discipline plunders in a moment of lust. Could Pearl, He… “