Many humans today are afraid of revealing what they truly love, simply because the fear of exclusion. However, their passion and desire can be flawed, which increases the risk of sin and hate to the community. The novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is an excellent demonstration of how human nature will give into temptations due to their passion. This is expressed by the three main characters in the novel, Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. These characters reflect these characteristics because Hawthorne connects passion with evil. Which meant those with passions, had to be excluded from their society, making them seem evil or immoral to others. Yet, Hawthorne specifies that everyone has a fault, but many
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He sees human nature as being defective and as equally capable of sin and hate, but also of unlimited love. A character that represents this the most is Hester Prynne, whose husband forced her to return to America by herself and then leaving her there, making her vulnerable to love. This made Hester dive into temptation because of her passion, as it is what human nature desires, and had an affair with her husband, making her an outcast in The Scarlet Letter. By being separated from the rest of the town people and all its biases, Hester was able to gaze at the town folk more objectively, as stated, “Walking to and fro, with those lonely footsteps, in the little world with which she was outwardly connected, it now and then appeared to Hester that gave her a sympathetic knowledge of the hidden sin in other hearts” (Hawthorne, 1850). The town people are so busy covering up faults and human passions that they do not see past their own or others faults. Hester who wears the Scarlet Letter openly does not need to worry about the opinions of others; in fact, she gains an understanding of the hearts of the town folk who make her feel …show more content…
Roger Chillingworth main purpose in the novel is to find out and punish the person who Hester committed adultery with. The townspeople believe that Chillingworth is not like the rest of them, because they sense something evil about him, making him an outsider as well. Which means he can also read people really well like Hester, the reader knows this because he immediately, recognizes Dimmesdale to be Hester's prior lover, even though it has not been revealed to him, as stated, “Old Roger Chillingworth…had perceptions that were almost intuitive” (Hawthorne, 1850). Chillingworth shows his desire and passion of solving the unknown, making him go from a scholarly man to a devil relentlessly consumed with cold vengeance. Hawthorne relates Chillingworth as a type of evil or bad vibe in the novel because all he wanted was revenge, and that was desire and temptation, which he wanted to
He sees human nature as being defective and as equally capable of sin and hate, but also of unlimited love. A character that represents this the most is Hester Prynne, whose husband forced her to return to America by herself and then leaving her there, making her vulnerable to love. This made Hester dive into temptation because of her passion, as it is what human nature desires, and had an affair with her husband, making her an outcast in The Scarlet Letter. By being separated from the rest of the town people and all its biases, Hester was able to gaze at the town folk more objectively, as stated, “Walking to and fro, with those lonely footsteps, in the little world with which she was outwardly connected, it now and then appeared to Hester that gave her a sympathetic knowledge of the hidden sin in other hearts” (Hawthorne, 1850). The town people are so busy covering up faults and human passions that they do not see past their own or others faults. Hester who wears the Scarlet Letter openly does not need to worry about the opinions of others; in fact, she gains an understanding of the hearts of the town folk who make her feel …show more content…
Roger Chillingworth main purpose in the novel is to find out and punish the person who Hester committed adultery with. The townspeople believe that Chillingworth is not like the rest of them, because they sense something evil about him, making him an outsider as well. Which means he can also read people really well like Hester, the reader knows this because he immediately, recognizes Dimmesdale to be Hester's prior lover, even though it has not been revealed to him, as stated, “Old Roger Chillingworth…had perceptions that were almost intuitive” (Hawthorne, 1850). Chillingworth shows his desire and passion of solving the unknown, making him go from a scholarly man to a devil relentlessly consumed with cold vengeance. Hawthorne relates Chillingworth as a type of evil or bad vibe in the novel because all he wanted was revenge, and that was desire and temptation, which he wanted to