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Cowardice
Title: Cowardice
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 800 | Pages: 3.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Cowardice
A Life Sentence in Cowardice: Arthur Dimmesdale’s Secret Conflict
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, behavior is centered around a rigid
Puritan society that leads to great consequences in the lives of Hester Prynne and Arthur
Dimmesdale. Their act of adultery greatly effects their lives and its result greatly alters
their presence in the community. Hester handles her situation with as much dignity and
pride as possible while Dimmesdale, the minister, acts in …showed first 75 words of 800 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 800 total…aware that he has to still
the voice of his conscience in order to make peace with God and himself, yet fails to do
so out of fear and anxiety, thus becoming a “servant of the devil”(220). Due to the high
pedestal on which he is placed because of his part in the Puritan community,
Dimmesdale is invested with fear, cowardice, and inability to confess his sin, leaving him
a powerless and weak man.
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