Planning:
Dimmesdale
Guilt and hypocritical

Intro:
Dimmesdales tortured mind leads him into a downward spiral of pain and misunderstanding. In the book “The Scarlet Letter” written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, he creates very different characters. Dimmesdale is in a higher position of authority then most people, he is the priest, and the lover of the infamous adulturous, which is the biggest situation of irony in the book. He feels guilt in the whole situatuion because he cannot live with himself without inflicting pain upon himself. He becomes sick, mentally and physically. He holds a sense of guilt toward Hester and Pearle, and when he speaks he speaks a sense of hypocrisy, and hypocritical spirit.

Background:
As the townspeople lunge at Hester to try and see who the father is, they give Dimmesdale the authority to “be in charge of her soul”. Dimmesdale dismisses the townspeople and tells them to stop bothering the poor girl, and to stop pounding her with questions. This is the first time in the book that we see some of Dimmesdales true character. The reader finally sees the truth behind him being the father, by what he is saying you can see the guilt in his words, and the pain he is being out through with no one but his consent.

Trait 1:
Dimmesdale is the priest of the town and he is the one in charge, or the keeper of Hester's soul, which is irony because he is the father of her baby girl, the one things that has marked Hester as “sinful”. Dimmesdale, the