Entry 31:
"It is done! The whole town will awake, and hurry forth, and find me here!"
Dimmesdale shrieks in the middle of the night on the scaffold where he once saw Hester Prynne live through her hours of public ignominy. His remorse had driven him there, but what good does that do if it's when everyone in the town is sleeping? It makes him look like even more of a coward, and he continues to depend on the dark to hide his sins. He can't seem to make up his mind to wether he wants to come clean or continue hiding.
"The drowsy slumberers mistook the cry either for something frightful in a dream, or for the noise of witches."
It's ironic because maybe it wasn't a dream for them, but it was definitely a nightmare for Dimmesdale. Him screaming was music for the devil, and if people thought it was a noise of a witch, then it all is compared back to one another.
"Music for the devil" is good. He wants to get caught but by accident.
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