Human Emotions In The Scarlett Letter

I have been fortunate enough to enjoy the pleasure of meeting people from all walks of life. Each person brings it’s own unique culture and a way of viewing life. One of the greatest things I’ve learned from these experiences is that human emotions are universal and like Plato said. “ All human actions arrive from desire, passion, and reason” In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlett Letter we see all of these. But there are three major emotions that are created throughout the novel, and aids the reader get the idea of human nature and his emotions are human frailty, hypocrisy and the possibility of redemption. These feelings are universal and have been around since Pilgrimage times, and will be around long after we are gone.
Hester Prynne is described as a beautiful woman “ The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance, on a large scale.” Nathaniel Hawthorne does not give us the background needed to know how things unfolded between Hester and the minister, Hawthorne allows us to imagine the desire that lead to an affair, but makes it clear that they both committed a great sin. Hester committed the sin of adultery while Dimmesdale committed the sin to go against his principles as a preaching minister. The sin that they committed would not go unnoticed, until a child would be born out of it. This would take us to one of …show more content…
From the scaffold and nature, to the names of the characters. It also helps us understand the law of the land during Pilgrimage times .But there are three major emotions that are created throughout the novel, and aids the reader get the idea of human nature and his emotions are human frailty, hypocrisy and the possibility of redemption. These emotions are part of human nature and are found in every corner of the world. We tend to think that we have nothing in common with our ancestors or people from other parts of the world, but it turns out that the more we try to be different, the more we are the