Hester And Dimmesdale In The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter essay In the story, “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne in my opinion of Hester and Dimmesdale for their actions of adultery are not forgiven. My reasons for believing that they're not forgiven is the moral to this story was, “be true” and during the story both Hester and Dimmesdale had moments to decide whether or not to say the truth. With Dimmesdale during his “confession” he had one moment to make up for that moment 8 long years ago where he was telling the town about Hester committing acts of adultery but still seemed to beat around the bush and he said “he” as in for the father and not admitting to say “I was the father”. It seems like to me if he really did feel guilty and want to make up for his actions he should've been honest. But another thing is he shouldn't have waited 8 years and put Hester and his daughter through all of the torment the people in the town gave them and let them both sit in a jail cell where Hester was even willing to keep his identity as the father secret. So in my way of thinking is if he would've been completely honest and owned up to the acts they committed to doing I personally think they would've been forgiven. And at the end of the story Hester and Dimmesdale were buried next to each other. The …show more content…
Having cast off her “stigma,” Hester regains some of her former, passionate beauty, and she lets down her hair and smiles. Sunlight, which as Pearl has pointed out stays away from her mother as though it fears her scarlet letter, suddenly brightens the forest. Whenever she takes off her scarlet letter something happens suddenly, and I see this as maybe god, nature or something is giving her a sign to not take it off because she cannot forget what she has done and should be punished for her actions. Continuing at the end of the the story, Hester still didn't remove the scarlet letter when she moved to