Knowing that he has sinned but afraid to confess, this character began to punish himself, physically and mentally.
Knowing that he has sinned but afraid to confess, this character began to punish himself, physically and mentally. While the mother of his child accepted her punishment and began a life of good works, this man descended into ill health, made worse by the attentions of his lover's husband, Roger Chillingworth. For ten points, identify this creation of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the father of Pearl in The Scarlet Letter.
Knowing that he has sinned but afraid to confess, this character began to punish himself, physically and mentally.
Arthur {Dimmesdale}