This weeks blogs was harder then any other one. I had to think real hard, and get my brain gears to start turning. I had to either sympathize for Chillingworth or Dimmsdale, so I chose Dimmsdale. Even though they were both technically at fault, I saw what Chillingworth was doing as a bigger sin. The sentence, "All this was accomplished with a subtlety so perfect, that the minister, though he had constantly a dim perception of some evil influence watching over him, could never gain a knowledge of its actual nature" (Hawthorne 117) pretty much sums it all up. The whole time, he knew he had sinned, and the guilt was killing him. Chillingworth, a evil influence, was also constantly on top of him at all times, trying to kill him even though in reality he did not know it.
Chillingworth was actually trying to kill Dimmsdale in a way, so I sympathized for Dimmsdale more. Even though he was the main adulterer and on top of that, he was a minister, but Chillingworth was doing a sin and trying to kill him for his mistake. I find that as a bigger sin than what Dimmsdale had done. Thus, I decided to sympathize for Arthur Dimmsdale more!
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