English essay

On a field sable, the letter A gules. This is the engraving on dimmesdale s grave stone after he died. This means that dimmesdale was also an adulterer. This is because when Hester was accused of adultery she wouldn t reveal or expose the man who impregnated her. She concealed him fearing his position and reputation would be destroyed. A light shined on his chest from the sun shaped in the letter of an A so people thought that this happened because of his religiousness and extremism but it was actually showing that he was an adulterer. The way he exposed himself and died was a true heroic move in the eyes of a couple readers because he didn t