Chapter 10, 'The Leech and His Patient'
Chillingworth probes Dimmesdale on the difference between confessed and hidden sin.
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From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The novel's central moral argument: Hester's open shame ennobles her while Dimmesdale's concealed guilt consumes him.
Chapter 11, 'The Interior of a Heart'
Dimmesdale's self-flagellation and torment, his sermons made more powerful by his secret.
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The narrator's famous moral: 'Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!'
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