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** Hawthorne plays with just how much Hester's motivation to stay near a town that shuns her is selfish, due to imagined obligations stemming from guilt, or a human need to atone due to her conditioning by her old religious society. Nonetheless, he portrays her as nurturing as she could be, to both her child and the Puritan folks she assists.
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** Hawthorne plays with just how much Hester's motivation to stay near a town that shuns her is selfish, due to her attachment to her lover Dimmesdale, due to imagined obligations stemming from guilt, or a human need to atone due to her conditioning by her old religious society. Nonetheless, he portrays her as nurturing as she could be, to both her child and the Puritan folks she assists.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: InUniverse, the author/narrator notes in ''The Custom House'' that his story is too dark to be popular for this reason.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: InUniverse, the author/narrator notes in ''The Custom House'' that his story is too dark to be popular for this reason.
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* FoeYay: Chillingworth and Dimmesdale; they convert into HeterosexualLifePartners.
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* {{Narm}}: In the film, the poor guy about to hang Dimmesdale gets shot by an Indian in the throat '''three times'''! And continues stumbling around in the midst of the huge battle. It's almost an OverlyLongGag.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: A sin does not define a person as completely evil. How a person accepts and interprets his/her own sins are rift with complicated emotions and grey morality rather than the black and white.
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* DesignatedHero: Despite publicly slut-shaming the woman he committed adultery with, Dimmesdale is supposed to be a good guy. He does redeem himself, but only at the very literal end, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath when he has nothing left to lose.]]
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* DesignatedHero: Despite publicly slut-shaming choosing not to confess that he was Hester’s lover and thus letting her take all the woman he committed adultery with, blame for their adultery, Dimmesdale is supposed to be a good guy. He does redeem himself, but only at the very literal end, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath when he has nothing left to lose.]]
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* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: Dimmesdale is the father of Pearl.
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* ItWasHisSled: Dimmesdale is the father of Pearl.
