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This quote is important because Dimmesdale is thanking Rodger Chillingworth for being so skeptical of his almost every move.

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"I thank you from my heart, most watchful friend."

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Dimmesdale is saying that his time in his study have made him the person he is.. This quote is important because Dimmesdale has been through so many trials and he knows that what he has done is wrong and he feels terribly for it.

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"My journey, and the sight of the holy apostle yonder, and the free air which I have breathed, have done me good, after so long confinement in my study."

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page 215: "Ecstasy that seemed like the shine of the celestial city...." -Simile
page 216:  "Like her pocket or her workbag...." -simile

Page 216: "having on a high headdress." -alliteration

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How do sin or the perception of sin, along with guilt and revenge, affect people physically, Physically, Psychologically, and emotionally?

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"in order to free his mind from this indistinctness and duplicity of impression which vexed it with a strange disquietude."

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Rev. Dimmesdale had left to go meet Hester in the forest so he had his sermon unfinished... So when he came back it still was lying on the table for him to finish.

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The minister could not sleep he was trying so hard to stay asleep but he felt overwhelmed.

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Dimmesdale had an unusual amount of energy.... It was like childlike energy. This is important because he is not all that much older than Hester but he looks like he is 60. He looks 60 because of his guilt he had bottled up inside.. all the pain he caused Hester when he left to treating her like crap when he got back.

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"The excitement of Mr. Dimmesdale's feelings as he returned from his interview with Hester lent him unaccustomed physical energy, and hurried him townward at a rapid pace."

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"the edifice had so very strange, and yet so familiar, an aspect, that Mr. Dimmesdale's mind vibrated between two ideas; either that he had seen it only in a dream hitherto, or that he was merely dreaming about it now."

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"thou art thyself the man!!"

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Dimmesdale is saying that i am the same man that walked into that forest earlier today as to the man i am now.

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"he installment thereof into her mind would probably have caused this aged sister to drop down dead at once."

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The minister is saying that this elderly woman has lost everything and that if one thing is said that she would most likely drop down dead all of a sudden.

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"The minister knew well that he was himself enshrined within the stainless sanctity of her heart."

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Everyone was saying that the minister was associating with the devil but he is being himself.

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"What is it that haunts and tempts me thus?"

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The minister is crying because he doesn't understand why something or someone is tempting or haunting him..

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"So, reverend Sir, you have made a visit into the Forest"

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The witch lady is asking Dimmesdale if he went to the forest... I think that the witch had something to do with the way people perceived him when we came back.

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"There, on the table, with the inky pen beside it, was an unfinished sermon, with a sentence broke in the midst."