Thursday, October 27, 2011
DJ - #21
Pg. 119 ‘No! not to thee! …. Not to an earthly physician.’ Dimmesdale knew he would never confess to a physician; only to the Physician(God) of the soul because it was a soul disease. He felt that Chillingworth was meddling in something that should happened between him and God. Chillingworth said they would be friends again. A theme Hawthorne repeatedly states was that nobody should have the right to look into another person's mind or soul.
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Is this the idea that everyone has a direct connection with God and thereby doesn't need a medium? Or the idea of keeping things secret?
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