In chapter 18 of The Scarlet Letter what page is the following quotation on: "There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the...

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet
Letter this quotation actually appears not in chapter 18 but at the end of
chapter 17, subtitled “The Pastor and His Parishioner.” It’s not possible to give an
exact page number because pages vary from one edition to another. If you look at the
last page of chapter 17, you’ll find this quotation eight lines from the end of the
chapter.

The speaker is Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. In this
chapter, he has been speaking to Hester Prynne in the forest. Hester has just finished
pleading with Dimmesdale to leave the colony and start anew, either somewhere else in
American or across the ocean in Europe. Dimmesdale, in his physically, mentally, and
spiritually weakened state does not initially believe that he is capable of making such
a radical change in his life, so he tells Hester that he does not have the strength or
courage to do it alone. Soon, Hester and Dimmesdale resolve to make the journey
together, across the sea, back to Europe. However, this resolution is short-lived as
Dimmesdale soon becomes too weak and dies with the realization that God has saved him
through the suffering that he has endured for the past seven
years.