In the Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a young mother by the name of Hester Prynne becomes impregnated by one of the Puritan’s highest ministers, Arthur Dimmesdale. As this impregnation, has occurred outside of marriage, Hester is put high on a scaffold so the Puritan community can know the face of one of its sinners. However, as Arthur Dimmesdale is a community religious leader, he is believed to be the purest of the pure, the most sinless by this conservative society, and other religious leaders would refuse to believe that he could do such a sinful thing. However, despite trying their best to maintain a sinless society, this Puritan society completely fails to do so. The leader of this community, Governor Bellingham, dresses elaborately while a family member, Mistress Hibbins, is a
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By showing the markings located on his chest, their religious leader is acknowledging, that he too is a sinner. Through living a life of secrecy, very few truly know what Arthur Dimmesdale have done. Thus, this community must accept its sinfulness if it wants to be a true community, and that no one is sinless and they all sin while they are not all punished. While this community claims to be so sinless by following strict rules, many chooses to ignore these rules and head into the forests around the community. Outside of the community, these forests nestle people can be hidden from the community within these forests. Through this secrecy, they can show one of their faces in the public in the community and another in the privacy of the forest. However, although this community does not believe that the sinless could possibly go in there, their own reverend, Arthur Dimmesdale, is with the sinful Hester Prynne. Within the obscurity of the forest, these two-talk side by side. However, even here, Hester wears her scarlet letter, a sign acknowledging the sin that she had committed, despite the secrecy of this place. After talking to the sinless Dimmesdale, she decides
By showing the markings located on his chest, their religious leader is acknowledging, that he too is a sinner. Through living a life of secrecy, very few truly know what Arthur Dimmesdale have done. Thus, this community must accept its sinfulness if it wants to be a true community, and that no one is sinless and they all sin while they are not all punished. While this community claims to be so sinless by following strict rules, many chooses to ignore these rules and head into the forests around the community. Outside of the community, these forests nestle people can be hidden from the community within these forests. Through this secrecy, they can show one of their faces in the public in the community and another in the privacy of the forest. However, although this community does not believe that the sinless could possibly go in there, their own reverend, Arthur Dimmesdale, is with the sinful Hester Prynne. Within the obscurity of the forest, these two-talk side by side. However, even here, Hester wears her scarlet letter, a sign acknowledging the sin that she had committed, despite the secrecy of this place. After talking to the sinless Dimmesdale, she decides