Character Letter to Author Dimmesdale; Scarlet Letter
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My Dearest Reverend Author Dimmesdale,
I have recently read the story of your life and I believe that some of the ways you handled yourself where rather horrendous. The initial thing that you did in the wrong was that you committed the sin of adultery. Did you have no respect for Hester’s future in the colony? More importantly did you have no respect for God, the one who you serve? Being a Reverend your nature should have been to tell the truth, yet you held in all that guiltiness and all that shame in for so long that it began to become your demise. As a man of God you should have know not to commit this sin, but what ever be the reason you still could’ve handled the consequences better.
You owed many things to your colony Reverend, but the thing you owed the most was your honesty. Reverend it is better to be hated for who you really are, than to be loved for who you are not. Although you were thought of as a Christian Leader of you colony, that doesn’t give you any reason to not confess to your sins. Although you began to come clean towards the end of your downfall in life, you shouldn’t have waited so long. Let’s not forget to mention Hester Pryne, the woman