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Mind Map #4 Ch.12 (Character Development (Dimmesdale (Dimmesdale's…

- - - - I believe Hawthorne gave this name to Dimmesdale because Dimmesdale because alone, he is a dim light of a person- he commits sin and tortures himself for it. He alone makes his life darker than it should. Hester's strong personality gives Dimmesdale the strength to admit to his sins. This is where Dimmesdale does a 180 to turn around his life to live in "the light of God" once again.
  - - - She speaks gibberish to him instead, an almost english, mocking Dimmesdale.
        
        Like the devil?
    - - Has daddy issues, and takes her revenge in torturing him even more by not telling the true identity of Chillingworth, but forgives her father, showing that Pearl has some sense of compassion.
- - - - The rhetorical questions showcase how insane Dimmesdale has become from his torment. He is falling apart, questioning everything, paranoid that his sins will banish him to Hell.
  - - - This refers to the idea that "sinners hands should be covered", but the sexton believes Dimmesdale to still be a holy man of God. Dimmesdale is terrified, but accepts the glove, just as Hester accepted her punishment.
        
        This leaves the chapter on a darker note, but we see later that Dimmesdale's life goes in a positive, more pure life, leading to believe that this is Dimmesdale's darkest moment in the novel.
- - - - Is interpreted by the village as an S for angel because John winthrop became an angel that day (had died)
      - Dimmesdale takes it another direction- that he is cursed with the scarlet letter by God.
  - - - Hawthorne uses the comparison of light to God and confession and darkness to sin and the devil
      - He also uses light and darkness to express the feelings of characters, such as when Dimmesdale feels anxious on pg. 236, Hawthorne uses darkness to express and describe the anxiety