Chapter 12 In Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter'

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In the book the scarlet letter chapter 12 where many things happen make me believe that i as a reader get the most information about the whole book in chapter 12 then the rest of the book and in this following essay i will be arguing why i feel this way with supported evidence.

In the beginning of the chapter dimmesdale is on the scaffold confessing his sin but it is at night . this gives evidence that he was cowardice and to scared to do it at day time like hester had to do. But why is this significant this shows us readers that a much needed side of dimmesdale and to see what he is like deep down inside for example in past chapters he says "If thou feelest it to be for thy soul's peace, and that thy earthly punishment will thereby be made …show more content…
“Then, and there, before the judgment seat, thy mother, and thou, and I, must stand together. But the daylight of this world shall not see our meeting!” (12.28). the word "must" seems to give a at some point, it's all going to be taken out of Dimmesdale's hand, and the whole mess will be revealed—to God. But at this point, he still seems to think that he doesn't have the will to reveal it himself. He also says in a earlier chapter "Be not silent from any mistaken pity and tenderness for him; for, believe me, Hester, though he were to step down from a high place, and stand there beside thee, on thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so, than to hide a guilty heart through life. What can thy silence do for him, except it tempt him--yea, compel him, as it were--to add hypocrisy to sin?" (3.26) Dimmesdale is basically begging Hester to reveal his name, so he won't be "compelled" to hide his sin. She sees it at compassion; he sees it as cruel. So this also shows from the beginning he was too scared to confess his sin by himself and …show more content…
A scroll so wide might not be deemed too expansive for Providence to write a people’s doom upon. The belief was a favorite one with our forefathers, as betokening that their commonwealth was under a celestial guardianship of peculiar intimacy and strictness. But what shall we say when an individual discovers a revelation, addressed to himself alone, on the same vast sheet of record! (12.32)When Dimmesdale sees the meteoric "A," he thinks it's to his own
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