Negative Effects Of The Scarlet Effect

Another effect on Dimmesdale, seen as his guilt slowly wears him down, is how he compares his actions to those of Roger Chillingworth. This is clearly seen when Dimmesdale claims to Hester, "We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world. There is one worse than even the polluted priest! That old man 's revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart. Thou and I, Hester, never did so!” (Hawthorne 185). Even in the privacy of the forest, he did not want to accept the full reality of his actions. This is a step forward for him, however, because he chooses to actually say aloud that what he did was wrong, just not as wrong as Chillingworth’s terrorizing of him. Eventually, Dimmesdale is able to confess to the public his sin, and this is due to his longing to escape the torture Chillingworth has been putting him through. Dimmesdale is no longer affected by the guilt that his actions brought about, so Chillingworth has no reason to aggravate him anymore. Sadly for the reverend, the shame

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, consists of multiple characters that are all important to the novel: Hester Prynne, Pearl Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. Hester Prynne is the protagonist who has a affair with Reverend Dimmesdale behind her husband’s, Roger Chillingworth, back thus creating Pearl Prynne, the outcome of Hester and Dimmesdale’s affair. Since Hester was pregnant, she was charged for committing adultery, and her punishment is to wear a Scarlet Letter on her bosom. Though, the whole novel surrounds that idea of who the father is, because Hester and Dimmesdale won't reveal their sin, which creates conflict and tension between all the characters. Though Dimmesdale, in particular, caused chaos

he harshness of the Puritan religion is captured in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. This novel’s protagonist, Hester Prynne, commits adultery in New England during the colonial times. She gives birth to an illegitimate child, Pearl, with Reverend Dimmesdale. Punished with a scarlet letter “A” that she wears on her breast, she is an outcast to society. This leaves her lonely; her only companion is her Pearl. Hester is skilled with uniquely embroidering elaborate designs; thus she supports herself and Pearl through her needlework. Pearl is often described as impish throughout the novel, disobeying the standard expectations of children. The Puritans government threatens to take away Pearl from Hester because they think Hester unfit to teach Pearl correctly. In comparison to Hawthorne’s view of a strict education system for Puritans, the Puritan community had a very effective education system. The Puritans’ strong and strict view on religion greatly influenced education in Colonial America.

In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, both Dimmesdale and Hester have grievously sinned in the eyes of the Puritan community. However, while Hester lives with her guilt publicly displayed in the form of the scarlet letter and Pearl, Dimmesdale hides his sin from the community and tries to continue as their saintly pastor. Yet, this concealment is not without consequences, as Dimmesdale suffers from horrible guilt as he denies his sin from his community, and thus denies himself forgiveness for his sin. Finally resolving to tell the truth on his deathbed, Dimmesdale dies after triumphantly punishment of having Chillingworth and Pearl as his personal tormentors. However, though Dimmesdale manages to overcome Chillingworth and Pearl, he

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a Romantic novel about two adulterers, Hester and Dimmesdale, who are forced to live with the repercussions of their sin. Hester Prynne is punished by wearing a scarlet ‘A’ which ostracizes her from Puritan Boston, leading to several years of solitude. During this time, Roger Chillingworth, her vengeful husband, preys on Dimmesdale, whose only source of repent is in his hypocritical preachings. When Dimmesdale finally speaks to Hester again, they plan to escape their wrongdoings by fleeing back to England, where they can live together as a loving family with their daughter Pearl. Although some may argue that Hester and Dimmesdale are in love, a closer examination of the novel shows that they are

The Scarlet Letter tells the tale of a woman named Hester Prynne who has an illegitimate child, Pearl, with one of Boston’s well-known ministers, Arthur Dimmesdale. Set in Puritan New England in the 1700s, the environment encircles the Puritan beliefs as well as the Puritan government. Caught by the town when she starts to show, Hester is sentenced to prison time and public humiliation for her adultery. As she raises Pearl she encounters her eccentric behavior and wild actions in stride as she has difficulties establishing just punishments for her. Over the course of the novel, Pearl develops into a main character, daringly questions the townspeople, and leads Hester away from evil, which increases her significance in the novel.

The townspeople force Hester to embroider a scarlet letter “A” on her chest as a reminder for committing adultery. Although the reader knows Dimmesdale is Pearl’s father, Hester keeps this a secret from everyone in her town to protect him from punishment. The symbolism of the scarlet letter changes throughout the novel. In the beginning, it stands for “adultery”, which is a serious sin in the eyes of Puritans. However, as Hester carefully embroiders the letter “A” for her bosom, she essentially takes control of her own punishment.

In The Scarlet Letter, Reverend Dimmesdale holds his guilt within him, harming his vitality, eventually he discovers forgiveness for himself. Reverend Dimmesdale is a worshipped minister, the entire town attends his masses and he is looked upon as an idol for many. He has committed the sin of adultery with Hester Prynne, who birthed a child imprisoned for her crime. However, the townspeople and magistrates are unaware that Dimmesdale is responsible for the child as well; this uncovered secret figuratively eats him alive. When the narrator

Guilt and shame represent two of the major consequences that come from sin. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter shows the plight of a Puritan woman named Hester Prynne who has committed adultery. The Scarlet Letter gives insight into the journey of Hester as she and other characters battle with their shame and guilt resulting from the sin of adultery. Throughout the Scarlet Letter the reader does not know who the father of Pearl, the result of the adulterous relationship, could possibly be. It is later discovered that the town minister, Dimmesdale, is the father of Pearl. In the conclusion of the book Dimmesdale dies but not before he can confess his sin to the town upon the scaffold where Hester faced her initial punishment. During the whole of the book

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, the main characters struggle to overcome sin, guilt, and public humiliation in a Puritan New England society. In the beginning of the novel, Hester Prynne is led to the scaffold to serve her punishment for committing adultery, a crime and a sin in Puritan culture. In addition to standing on the scaffold to be publicly embrassed, Hester also must wear a scarlet letter "A" to show her sin of adultery. The townspeople, including Hester's werid husband Roger Chillingworth, seek to find the true identity of Hester's lover and the father of her illegitimate child, Pearl. Hester refuses to publicly admit that Pearl's father is Arthur Dimmesdale, the town minister; because she wants to protecting him

Opposing Puritan Society Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a novel depicting a theocratic Puritan society and a woman buried in secrets and sin. The Puritan society described in The Scarlet Letter believes that religion is law. Hester Prynne, the novel’s protagonist, is accused of adultery and is forced to wear the letter A over her breast as a warning for all Puritans to abstain from sin. Hester Prynne’s adultery resulted in the birth of Pearl, who is often described as beautiful but demon-like.

Forbidden love, hidden guilt, mischievous characters, and stringent religious beliefs are strong themes in the Puritan community. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne, a young wife restarts her life, without her older husband, in Boston. Eventually she falls in love with a man, and they conceive a child together. However since she’s already married the conception is labeled as Adultery. For her sin, Hester must wear a Scarlet Letter on her chest, for all to see that she is an Adulterer. In an unfortunate turn of events, her husband returns, determined to take revenge on her lover. Now she not only must keep her lover’s identity a secret, but her husband's identity as well.

Sometimes, one may think that an action they commit is, “no big deal.” Although, on the occasion that something does go wrong, it could lead to catastrophic downfalls and inauspicious outcomes. This effect tends to happen to the doomed and ignominious Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. With each of these characters (from the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne) comes a similar theme: they have all been corrupted with sin which is the cause of their actions. Hester’s actions were determined even before the novel began.

In The Scarlet Letter, the author provides a knowledge of God and Biblical rules, but, through the story and the actions of the characters, ridicules the hypocrisy of the church and what it stands for. Throughout the book, the characters of the Puritan community praise the minister, Mr. Dimmesdale, for being a high and holy man, seemingly exempt from all human sin. However, though they shame Hester for having a child out of wedlock, the minister has committed this very same sin. Hester is forced to wear a letter “A” on her chest to show her “frailty and sinful passion” and be an example of “the reality of sin” (73). Hawthorne is showing the hypocrisy that he saw within the church, showing how someone who is seen as the most holy and Christ-like figure can

Hester’s scarlet letter is a piece of clothing, the “SCARLET LETTER, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom” (Hawthorn 51). Her interpretation of the extremity of her sins is one of self composure and calm. She views her sins solely as a "violation in the natural order" of the environment and therefore cannot even perceive her sin as being evil except through outside influence. Dimmesdale on the other hand, has a scarlet letter carved in his chest. This is revealed when Dimmesdale was giving his revelation, in which “he tore away the ministerial band from before his breast. It was revealed!” (Hawthorn 232). Dimmesdale 's personal interpretation as to the extremity of his own sins is a "violation of God 's law," which is the law that he is totally dedicated to and supported by. Dimmesdale 's interpretation of his sin is much more severe than Hester 's, it is a violation and direct contradiction of his own self consciousness and physical existence. Therefore the appearance of his A, even though it is never directly described in the novel, must be powerful, broken, and brutally dishonest (...a ghastly rapture; Hawthorne pg.95). Since the Scarlet Letter on Hester is visible to the public, she was criticized and looked down on. “This women has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die” (Hawthorn 49) is said by a female in the marketplace talking about Hester. She becomes a stronger person through living this hard life.