When Dimmesdale tells Hester to never reveal him as the father, Hester obeys. Even when she is in front of the whole town she declines to break her promise to Dimmesdale, exclaiming, “I might endure his agony, as well as mine. (57)” By refusing to admit to who the father is, she takes all the blame herself. When Chillingworth brings out the point that, “he bears no letter of infamy wrought into his garment, as thou dost,”(63). Hester still refuses to break the promise between her and Dimmesdale, and instead carries all the blame…
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