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Scarlet Letter Truth Vs Sin

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In the Dark Romantic novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne reveals that the truth will unleash its dominance over the soul through broken barriers of secrecy of a character. Arthur Dimmesdale, was a respected and dignified man in the Puritan town because of his reputation as a minister. Dimmsdale soon found his paramour, Hester Prynne and both of them committed the sin of adultery together. Hester confessed her sin of adultery and paid the price for it; unlike Dimmesdale, he waited seven years to confess to his crime of impregnating Hester. After years of waiting, the truth consumed his soul and began to unleash out into the Puritan town. When Dimmesdale confessed he stated, “ye, that have loved me!—ye, that have deemed me holy!—behold

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