Chapter 17 The Scarlet Letter
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Individuality and Conformity
Hester and Dimmesdale run across in the forest and concur easily. Dimmesdale says life with a scarlet letter would be preferable to his life of charade, since Hester is the but person with whom he can be himself. The rest is emptiness, falsehood, and death.
Dimmesdale knows that his secret sin and the split identity it creates in him is actually killing him.
Hester reveals to Dimmesdale that Chillingworth was her married man. Dimmesdale, furious, blames her for his suffering. But he then forgives her and says Chillingworth's sin was far worse than theirs.
Hester and Dimmesdale kept secrets to protect themselves. Chillingworth kept secrets in order to damage others.
Themes
Dimmesdale says living under Chillingworth's control is worse than death, only he sees no mode out. Hester tells him to consider a life beyond Boston, in the prophylactic and anonymity of Europe. Dimmesdale says he lacks the force and courage to venture out solitary. Hester says he wouldn't accept to go lonely.
Hester gives Dimmesdale a solution to save himself that isn't confession: leave Boston and the Puritans with her. But annotation that this solution involves running from secrets, not confessing them.
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