Dimmesdale the Lying Coward

Cooper Chisum Dimmesdale the Lying Coward In the book The Scarlet Letter, a character named Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale was considered to be, by most quite a little in the prude fraternity, a hero. Dimmesdale was an extremely religious man with great morals and values. some(prenominal) people in the community looked up to him for his passion and truth roughly his religious beliefs. Dimmesdale was a very reserved man, and was thought to be an backer of God. People worshiped him, believed what he said, and looked at him as hero.Unfortunately the community was left on the whole devastated and confused, because Dimmesdale was a assembly coward that didnt find the strength to admit his sin. Dimmesdale knew how the community saw him and could not face the truth, so he hid it. Dimmesdale lived two unalike lives, one was the religious face that everyone loved and looked up too. On the former(a) hand, when he was alone all he did was beat himself up mentally and physically.Soon the gui lt made Dimmesdale weaker and weaker and he wanted to tell the truth, and tried ternary times, but he never found the courageousness. He allowed the guilt of deceit and manipulating the people to eventually kill him all because he couldnt divide with what the community might think. Nobody in the town imagined him committing of sin of some(prenominal) kind, especially one that was a huge wrong doing in the puritan community. Dimmesdale hid a secret behind the mask he wore for the community. He had courage to commit the sin but he did not crap the courage to admit it.He committed adultery with a woman, she got pregnant, caught and punished by human race humiliation because of him, but he couldnt accept the consequences. On the otherwise hand, he was tortured not only by his conscience he was beat down by Roger Chillingworth. Eventually Dimmesdale was destined to die because he could not survive the guilt. Surprisingly in a last appearance of strength, Dimmesdale admits to hi s sin, but dies soon after. He died and left the community, his people with no explanation.In the fabrication The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne, Dimmesdale proves that he is a coward by not being able to do the right(a) thing and tell the truth. He lived a double life. He was a hero to so legion(predicate) people and all he did was let them down. He lost their boldness and honor towards him, all because he could face the consequenses. Arthur Dimmesdale is a pathetic lying coward that didnt have the confidence or power to make things right and follow what he preached to people of the Puritan community. He didnt have the courage to live by everything he made other people believe in.