Gifts Of Evil
In the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne there are many characters who have committed sins. In Puritan community they followed the word of god and banned all sins. These sins in The Scarlet Letter were look as The Black Mans work meaning satans work. The sins committed were harmful and hurtful to people and their souls. Hester and Mr. Dimmesdale committed adultery with bearing a child named Pearl. But Roger Chillingworth committed the worst sin by using his gifts for evil.
Hester Prynne was the main character in the Scarlet Letter. Hester sin was committing adultery with minister Arthur Dimmsdale. Birthing a child named Pearl of pure sin. By committing her sin they punished her. “‘If thou feelest it
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Inward trouble drove him to practices more in accordance with the old, corrupted faith of Rome than with the better light of the church in which he had been born and bred. In Mr. Dimmesdale's secret closet, under lock and key, there was a bloody scourge. Oftentimes, this Protestant and Puritan divine had piled it on his own shoulders, laughing bitterly at himself the while, and smiting so much the more pitilessly because of that bitter laugh.”(211 ).
Even though he told Hester to keep their sin a secret he punished himself by putting a black mark on his chest of the letter “A” on his chest knowing the struggle and pain on his soul. By him staying in Boston he was making himself suffer more but he doesn't want to flee as Hester told him to.
Roger Chillingworth was sneaky and the most unfriendly spiteful character throughput the Scarlet Letter. Roger Chillingworth's sin was keeping Dimmdales alive to watch him suffer because i knew his secret about adultery. "What evil have I done the man?" asked Roger Chillingworth again. (250) In this quote he believes he not doing anything evil or sinister like. Roger Chillingworth was doctor in the Scarlet Letter. He used his skills and gifts for evil keeping Dimmesdale alive. “‘He therefore still kept up a familiar intercourse with him, daily receiving the old physician in his study; or visiting
The Scarlet Letter submerses the reader in the Puritan’s culture. The story involves the Puritans portrayal of the sins of a young woman. Although a difficult read, the book stirs the reader to obtain a high moral compass. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne uses the symbols of light and dark to depict good and evil among the characters, Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth.
Hester Prynne's guilt is the result of her committing adultery, which has a significant effect on her life. Hester is publicly seen with the scarlet letter when she first emerges out of the cold
In essence, there were three main sins committed in The Scarlet Letter, the sins of Hester, the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. Roger Chillingworth committed the greatest sin because he let himself be ruled by hatred and the consuming desire for vengeance. The overpowering vengeance and hatred felt by Chillingworth caused his life to be centered on demeaning Dimmesdale and tormenting him until the end of time. Both Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale committed sins for which they were deeply remorseful, Roger Chillingworth, however, committed the greater sin because he felt no guilt.
In The Scarlet Letter Hester Prynne is more than a literary figure in a classic novel, she is known by some people to be one of the earliest American Hero’s. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Hester commits adultery and has a child that she must care for all alone. She is forced to wear a powerful, attention grabbing “Scarlet A” on her chest while she must try to make a living to support her and her child, Pearl. Even though she must face all the harsh judgment and stares she does not allow her sin to stop her from living a successful life. She looks past the Letter as a symbol of sin and turns it into a sign of approval. Hester
Hester comforted him to the scaffold, and stuck by him to the end, as he admitted his sin of adultery, which shocked the people of Boston. , leaving many with their jaws dropped.
Typically, doctors are kind, loving, wise, and caring. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the complete opposite personality is revealed through the doctor. Roger Chillingworth is a major symbol of evil and the devil in The Scarlet Letter. Not only is Roger a source of evil, he tries to change other people’s views of themselves and their actions. This can be seen in how Roger is slowly killing Rev. Dimmesdale with his evil.
Roger Chillingworth’s soul is immediately taken captive by revenge as soon as he finds out about Hester’s infedelity (I would go w infidelity). He is transformed into a devilish figure overcome by a passion to torture Hester’s partner in crime, Arthur Dimmesdale. Hawthorne shows Chillingworth’s evil intentions, “The intellect of Roger Chillingworth had now a sufficiently plain path before it…which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy” (Hawthorne 127). In The Scarlet Letter,
Its makes him even more of a coward because he gives advice to others about taking full responsibility for their sin, but he doesn 't even listen to himself. "His spirit lacked the strength that could have borne up, as thine has been, beneath a burden like thy scarlet letter" (page 178 paragraph 4). In this scene Roger Chillingworth tries to make Hester recognize Dimmesdale 's hypocrisy but she denies it. He says that Dimmesdale can preach a good sermon about the consequences of sin, but he can 't deal with them himself. It 's true what Chillingworth says about Dimmesdale yet it is ironic because he is a reverend he is supposed to follow the Puritan lifestyle strictly however, he does not. He becomes more beaten as he keeps hiding the truth while he doesn 't accept his punishment that he deserves.
Arthur Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne, and Roger Chillingworth all committed sins that needed forgiveness. However, only Hester found what they were all searching for. They also were needing to bring it upon themselves to forgive themselves and others. That forgiveness was life or death to Dimmesdale and Chillingworth. They ended up in the grave.
In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne expresses how sin causes guilt through Hester’s, Chillingworth’s, and Dimmesdale’s actions and emotions. Hester Prynne was the main sinner in the story, and she felt
Hester Prynne, the woman that has been living as one of the biggest sinners in this town. Since the time that she had to carry with such an atrocious title, Hester has been humiliated, mentally harmed, and has slowly lost her own sanity. Now even though she has gone through so much, there is two things that have not changed and that is for one, she has not once weared the scarlet letter with shame, she wears it with pride and at the same time with the responsibility of showing the sin that she will not be able to run away from. Secondly, Hester never stays away from her daughter Pearl, the girl that brings her the consolation that she needs but also that reflects on the acts of her sin. It can obviously be seen that Hester most keep her daughter Pearl, she has gone through alot and her daughter is all she has left to accompany her and bring her peace.
The Scarlet Letter {{italicize/underline the names of novels}} takes Hester Prynne as its protagonist. Beside her, there are some other characters which make significant parts in the story such as Pearl, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth. They are all involved with sin in Puritan society; Hester committed adultery with Dimmesdale, and Pearl is an outcome of the adultery between them. The sin of Chillingworth is that he always thinks about the revenge on Dimmesdale for taking his wife. However, there is one real villain in this story.
It was not long after Hester’s visit to the governor’s home, that he passes away. Of course the governor was thought to be a holy man and none of the puritans thought of him as a sinner. However, on the night of his death, the old sexton noticed that in the sky, a scarlet “A” appeared. “…a great red letter in the sky, - the letter A, which we interpreted to stand for Angel.” (Hawthorne 144). The sight of this mystical “A” caused a bit of uncertainty for a few reasons. One reason was the meaning of the letter. In Hester’s case, the Scarlet letter was meant to mark her sin but a man of the governors stature was thought to have not ever sinned and thus in theory would have no reason for an “A” to follow him to his grave. This marked an important change in the perception of the sin represented by the scarlet letter. The puritans began to question the idea of sin because how could a mark of sin show up for someone who obviously has not sinned? In Hester’s case, after the incident with governor Winthrop, many of the puritan people began to see Hester’s “badge of shame” as more of “one of good deeds” (Hawthorne 147). This transformation in their way of thinking was done in a way so that Hester was not “unmarked” but at the same time, the deceased governor was not being looked at as a sinner. Toward the end of the novel,
Hester Prynne is a protagonist in the novel " The Scarlet Letter" She is described as a young tall women, with dark and glossy hair. So beautiful that "her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped." Hester Prynne suffers public humiliation, forced to wear the scarlet letter for the sin she has done. She then hides her beauty and sin underneath a cap for seven years. All the people who surround her look down on her and shame her, but after a long while. People begin to feel bad for her, telling her to remove the scarlet letter. Though, Hester disagrees and keeps the scarlet letter on. Leaving her with a burden on her back reminding her and the people for what she did. Hester continues with her
Hester Prynne, who is best known for her act of adultery and the scarlet letter she wears upon her breast, best represents a mix of Romanticism and Puritanism. Introduced in the beginning of the book, she automatically is outcast from the rest, not only because of her act of adultery and sin, but from her obvious different way of thinking. After Hester’s baby named Pearl is born, she can especially be shown to have more of a Romantic way of thought as she raises