hroughout the whole Scarlett letter novel there are many secrets that take place. Most of them in the story lead up to something worse and people get badly treated by them. The main secrets that change the entire story is when Hester is asked not to reveal the identity of Reverend Dimmesdale, also not revealing Chillingsworth’s identity, but mainly the secret sin of adultery.
The whole novel is revolving around Dimmesdale and Hester but Dimmesdale has his identity as a sinner/lover hidden from the public. For example, in chapter 17 he states “Else, I should long ago have thrown off these garments of mock holiness, and have shown myself to mankind as they will see me at the judgment-seat. Happy are you, Hester, that wear the scarlet letter openly …show more content…
The author shows a resemblance in the comparison of a mental state that's keeping a secret and the person who holds them. It also shows the feeling of guilt in their soul slowly destroying them to in the end many years later they end up confessing. Hester had been publicly humiliated but many years later she did not care about the dilemma as much as Dimmesdale. For example, when Dimmesdale climbs onto the empty scaffold in the dark alone and confesses his sins he tries to redeem himself but not even that helps him. Although, there are some people that seem to forget guilt and not keep it in their lives for so long there are also people like reverend Dimmesdale that has to do it in a right way. This story can be elaborated in so many more ways but about the secrets is one of the main themes portrayed throughout the whole novel. In a way that it caused people to confess and to become cruel and torture others through jealousy. In conclusion, there are too many secrets in the book the Scarlett letter but the main ones are how Hester is asked to not reveal Dimmesdale’s identity, also to not reveal Chillingsworth’s identity, and the secret sin of
The whole novel is revolving around Dimmesdale and Hester but Dimmesdale has his identity as a sinner/lover hidden from the public. For example, in chapter 17 he states “Else, I should long ago have thrown off these garments of mock holiness, and have shown myself to mankind as they will see me at the judgment-seat. Happy are you, Hester, that wear the scarlet letter openly …show more content…
The author shows a resemblance in the comparison of a mental state that's keeping a secret and the person who holds them. It also shows the feeling of guilt in their soul slowly destroying them to in the end many years later they end up confessing. Hester had been publicly humiliated but many years later she did not care about the dilemma as much as Dimmesdale. For example, when Dimmesdale climbs onto the empty scaffold in the dark alone and confesses his sins he tries to redeem himself but not even that helps him. Although, there are some people that seem to forget guilt and not keep it in their lives for so long there are also people like reverend Dimmesdale that has to do it in a right way. This story can be elaborated in so many more ways but about the secrets is one of the main themes portrayed throughout the whole novel. In a way that it caused people to confess and to become cruel and torture others through jealousy. In conclusion, there are too many secrets in the book the Scarlett letter but the main ones are how Hester is asked to not reveal Dimmesdale’s identity, also to not reveal Chillingsworth’s identity, and the secret sin of