Scarlet Letter Project

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the last conversation on the scaffold

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another conversation between Hester, Dimmesdale, and Pearl

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An interview with Arthur Dimmesdale following his revelation that he is actually the father of Pearl

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a medical report for arthur dimmesdale that fell out of his FBI file

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a conversation between pearl, dimmesdale, and hester. (guest appearance by chillingsworth) 

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We recently pulled the FBI file on Arthur Dimmesdale to furthur our understand his character. 

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A Double Voice Poem between Dimmesdale and the people of Puritan Boston

Dimmesdale

The People

Be not silent fromany pity for him, Hester, though he were to stand there beside thee, yet better were it so, than to hide a guilty heart

 She bears her shame alone

 This child of its father’s guilt

 She is of demon origin

 I need no medicine

 With each Sabbath, your cheeks grow paler

 There are such men, guilty as they may be, they shrink from displaying themselves black and filthy in the view of men

 These men deceive themselves

At the great judgment day, I must stand                                                                                           People of New England, ye that have loved me, ye that have deemed me holy, at last I stand upon the spot where, seven years since, I should have stood. Lo the scarlet letter which Hester wears, ye have all shuddered at it, but there stood one in the midst of you, ye have not shuddered

As Pearl kissed him, a spell was broken

Farewell

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A rap about dimmesdale's unstable mind. By JARMD.

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Scaffold - one last time

Ghastly look with which he regarded them

Something at once strangely triumphant motion

Which was her characteristics, as if impelled by inevitable fate

Against her strongest reached him

Before she reached him.

With a piercing earnestness so merciful who gives grace

This last moment my own heavy sin and miserable agony

Years ago, come hither Thy strength, Hester

Guided by the will of God granted me

A tumul stood more immediately

Taken by perplexed  purport of what they saw

Unable to receive the explanation readily presented any other

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Scaffold - a second time

Walking in the shadow of a dream under the influence of  of somnambulism

Reached the spot of hour of public ignominy

The same platform black and weather-stained

Storm or sunshine seven long years tread of many culprits

Who ascended remained beneath

The minister unvaried pall of cloud muffled

The whole expanse stood eyewitnesses sustained  punishment

Summoned forth discerned no face nor hardly the outline of a human shape

The dark gray of the midnight no peril of discovery

The minister might redden in the east

Chill night-air would creep into his frame

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Scaffold - the first time

Scaffold constituted penal machine

For two or three generations merely historical

But was held old in time effectual

Agent in good citizenship

Guillotine in short of the pillory

Rose that instrument of discipline as to confine the human

Thus hold it up to the public gaze ideal of ignominy embodied

Manifest this contrivance of iron

Noo outrage our common nature

The delinquencies no outrage flagrant to forbid

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Dimmesdale, a man full of guilt, weeping, and cowering, his chest aches of the secret that has caused him nothing but despair and regret, trying to feel a connection with the women that he let down and left alone in the darkness, stands upon the scaffold, his heart begins to feel with more guilt, his eyes, drooping in sadness, his heart becomes as heavy as solid stone, he falls into a deep coma of sorrow, his mistake will haunt him for the rest of his days.

The Scarlet A

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Standing alone in this big world-wind of speculation, Hester held the hand she knew, Pearl’s helping hand, guiding her mother to protection, away from the preoccupied and hustling world, which seemed to mask Hester’s problems; however Hester had to ask herself this question, “in bitterness of her heart, whether it were for ill or good that the poor little creature had been born at all” (113).

The Scarlet A

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Mr. Dimmesdale reached the spot, still remaining its place, below the balcony of the meeting house, the same place Hester Prynne stood; the platform was weather-stained with the storm and sunshine that made its mark seven years ago, the time when the infamous Mistress Prynne occupied the space –townsmen gathered and on-lookers gawked at the punishment that awaited her –now it is Mr. Dimmesdale’s turn to stand there, driven by remorse; but no one, no eyes, will gather in the town square on the dark, desolate evening; it is God who has called him there, however, he will not be discovered except by the cold, chilly air cutting through his body.

The Scarlet A

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Obituary

Arthur Dimmesdale passed away last Sabbath, election day. His death is quite unusual, as he died after delivering what many say to be the most powerful sermon of his career. Following his sermon he ascended the scaffold and proclaimed his sins. He announced that it was he that fathered a child with Mistress Hester Prynne all those years ago. He expressed deep remorse and regret that he left Hester to suffer alone, and that little Pearl never had a father. Arthur Dimmesdale died young, in his late twenties. Minister Dimmesdale was an inspiring minister and was loved by the people of Boston. He is survived by his illegitimate daughter Pearl. He will buried in King’s Chapel graveyard.