Hawthorne's novel describes the life of an adulteress, Hester Prynne, who is shunned by her judgmental community. She gave birth to her daughter Pearl out of wedlock, while her “partner of iniquity,”(Hawthorne 59) a minister named Arthur Dimmesdale, never revealed his “black secret” of their affair. Although Hester suffered public ridicule, the minister suffered no immediate consequence. However, guilt has a way of killing a person silently. In the end, Dimmesdale's black secret had a greater negative impact on him than Pearl, who was the consequence of sin, had on Hester. This is because Dimmesdale chose to hide his sin from the church but Hester had no way to conceal her sin. Dimmesdale watched Hester and Pearl take all the blame and ridicule for the lover’s sins, and he avoided his family in order to preserve his image. Although Reverend Arthur Dimmes....

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