Entry 52:
"At every step he was incited to do some strange, wild, wicked thing or other, with a sense that it would be at once involuntary and intentional; in spite of himself, yet growing out of a profounder self than that which opposed the impulse."
He was in the forest so long that 'natural' impulses started wanting to take over his actions. Pearl, the wild one, was also there. He left the forest different, "I left him yonder in the forest, withdrawn into a secret dull.(pg.189)" By starting to feel free, he felt more capable of being able to express himself. "The minister’s own will, and Hester’s will, and the fate that grew between them, had wrought this transformation." Not to mention that he was probably love drunk off of both Hester and Pearl's presence.
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