As you live your life, everyone in their lifetime will encounter dark and light in the world. But… the scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world’s scorn and bitterness, and become a type of something to be sorrowed over, and looked upon with awe, and yet with reverence, too. Throughout the novel The Scarlet Letter, light and dark imagery, alluding to the larger conflict between good and evil, is present throughout the novel in the characters of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, Pearl and Hester Prynne.
“The sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom…. It will not flee from me, or I wear nothing on my bosom yet!” Hester Prynne, whom is the protagonist in the story, she has struggled with people not being nice to her, and treating her as if she is just a nobody. Hester was one of the most beautiful puritan women in the town. The sunlight would shine down on her almost brighter than it did on any other puritan. Hester has no sunlight to give thee because she has committed the sin of adultery. She no longer had the halo shinning over her head, but now it was almost as though curtain of darkness fell over her soul and presence. Although, Hester redeemed her puritan soul and …show more content…
In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the sinful act involves the three main characters, Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth. Hester and Dimmesdale are entangled in self-delusion because they both caught up in false interpretation of their respective sins and a opaque vision of a better life. Chillingworth is caught up in revenge and hatred for the person who Hester had an affair with, that hatred and revenge has brought Chillingworth to a dark place within himself, and that soon brought death to
“The sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom…. It will not flee from me, or I wear nothing on my bosom yet!” Hester Prynne, whom is the protagonist in the story, she has struggled with people not being nice to her, and treating her as if she is just a nobody. Hester was one of the most beautiful puritan women in the town. The sunlight would shine down on her almost brighter than it did on any other puritan. Hester has no sunlight to give thee because she has committed the sin of adultery. She no longer had the halo shinning over her head, but now it was almost as though curtain of darkness fell over her soul and presence. Although, Hester redeemed her puritan soul and …show more content…
In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the sinful act involves the three main characters, Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth. Hester and Dimmesdale are entangled in self-delusion because they both caught up in false interpretation of their respective sins and a opaque vision of a better life. Chillingworth is caught up in revenge and hatred for the person who Hester had an affair with, that hatred and revenge has brought Chillingworth to a dark place within himself, and that soon brought death to