Entry 14
"Woman, woman, thou art accountable for this! --I cannot forgive thee" (Hawthorne, Chapter 17).
Dimmesdale's character is partially revealed through these words he spats at Hester. He blames Hester ultimately for the sin they committed. He speaks like she forced him into the affair, and it makes the reader resent him for such a statement. It's equally both their faults that Dimmesdale is forced to contain such guilt inside of himself, and that Hester has to wear the scarlet letter.
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