On Arthur Dimmesdale’s Double Personalities as Revealed in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter

This paper focuses on the analysis of the double personalities of Arthur Dimmesdale, a protagonist in The Scarlet Letter . Firstly, it briefly introduces the fame of Nathaniel Hawthorne in American literature and the content of The Scarlet Letter . Then, it mainly analyzes Arthur Dimmesdale’s double personalities. After that, it studies the factors in shaping Arthur Dimmesdale’s double personalities. The paper aims to help people better understand such a hypocritical person and a corrupt society, making them think of their own personalities. It comes to an end that without a healthy personality, one person absolutely comes to his/her death guiltily, even though he/she is learned.