The Scarlet Letter Adam&Eve
Throughout time, the human race has fought an on-going battle of lies and guilt from internal forces that divides the heart from the brain. In a community, especially one of high religious expectations, people suffer the warfare of every challenging consequence conceivable in order to alleviate the tensions of resurrection caused by wrongdoing. Everyone is susceptible to sin, but how each person deals with the blackness and filth of their sanctity is nothing less than ordinary. Sometimes there is nothing a person can do to diminish the feeling of guilt or the community's response to incriminating acts of unconfessed lies and perpetual guilt. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne creates the character of Hester Prynne who is looked down upon by the Puritan community as a "brazen hussy" for her sin of adultery. This results in the punishment of both public shamming and a scarlet "A" kept on her bosom to remind her of her illegitimate child made from Satan himself. Hester Prynn's mirror of lustful betrayal displays a reflection of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale the Boston, Massachusetts Colony's well-respected and praised Puritan minister. Humanity unravels the truth to the effects of our confessed and unconfessed sins throu
The reflective relationship between Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale mirrors society, its capacity of sin, and humane ability to repent, forgive, and forget. The effects of the confessed and unconfessed sin between Prynne and Dimmesdale resolves truth behind life's mystery of dealing with the consequences of black sins and society's judgment against those sins. In the revealing words of Hester Prynne, "In all things else, I have striven to be true! Truth was the one virtue which I might have held, and did hold fast, through all extremity...A lie is never good, even though death threaten on the other side!"(202). With confession comes an eased conscience along with public shame, and without confession comes praise of holiness along with a weakened heart of lies and guilt. A young, passionate woman of Puritan society corrodes into a shameful state of frailty and sorrow when the love for a noble minister brings to an end any possibility of a normal life without the pressures of judgment. "In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it. Every gesture, every word, and even the silence of those with whom she came in contact, implied, and often expressed, that she was banished"(44). Hester Prynne brings a child into the world from an unknown father and suffers an eternal punishment for the one mistake of adultery. The Puritan society condemns her; she can never be seen as goodly and pure, which causes Hester feelings of negligence and unbearable disgust. In all chaos and emotional disorder, her husband Roger Chillingworth enters the spectrum of Hester's throbbing headache of anguish. He visits her to discover that she never loved him, and worse, he is a detrimental reminder of her betrayal. Chillingworth feels a need to discover her fellow sinner's identity, thus he asks her to keep his name a secret so that he may go about the community without suspicion. Hester is trapped in a bind of secrets to the benefit of Chillingworth and to the benefit of the reverend in order to protect their identity and status in the colony. This sin undoubtingly results in horror and mockery of the beautiful young Hester, but is there any possible way that she could benefit from this upheaval of turmoil and disgrace? "This badge hath
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Approximate Word count = 1551
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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