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In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Dimmesdale suffered the most pain and guilt throughout the entire book. He experienced a prodigious amount of pain that caused guilt from his sin. Dimmesdale inflicted ....

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... Towards the end of the book when he is confessing, it is clear by his words how guilty he really felt: ‘“Hester Prynne,” cried he, with piercing earnestness, “in the name of Him, so terrible and so merciful, who gives me grace, at this last moment, to do what -for my own heavy sin and miserable agony- I withheld myself from doing seven years ago, come hither now, and twine thy strength about me! Thy strength, Hester; but let it be guided by the will which God hath granted me! This wretched and wronged old man is opposing it with all his might!- with all his own might, and the fiend’s! Come, Hester, come! Support me up y ...