Arthur Dimmesdale's Sin In The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter written in 1850 by Nathaniel Hawthorne was about what happens when you commit one of the greatest sins and it starts to eat you up inside because you don’t want to confess. The book is set in seventeenth century Boston, Massachusetts. In this time period the Puritans were extremely religious and they believed if you did good deeds you would be sent to Heaven and if you committed a sin you would be condemned to Hell. When men commit a sin in the Puritan society they are less severely punished than the women. Men may be committed with fornication, but the women were charged with more serious crimes of adultery. Usually women who cheated on their spouses were punished by the community either by shaming or by death. Sin is committed by all. When a sin is committed, whatever that sin may be follows the punishment. Did you ever think that one crime could possibly ruin your life? Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale risked his reputation and health all because he engaged in a major sin, but refused to confess about his wrongdoings. Nathaniel Hawthorne wanted to portray that Dimmesdale’s sin was unforgettable, Chillingworth had the worst intentions planned for Dimmesdale, and Pearl just wanted the best for herself and her family. In the Puritan …show more content…
By the end of the book after Dimmesdale’s death, Chillingworth soon died after because his only purpose for coming to Boston was to get revenge on Dimmesdale, but since Dimmesdale died he had no other reason to live. Hester and Pearl returned to the outskirts of town where Hester continued her life as a seamstress until she died, and pearl got older and received a large inheritance from Chillingworth. All of these events just go to show that one bad mistake could possibly ruin your life, just look at