Risks In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

In the story of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is a constant theme of risks made by each of the main characters that are familiarized as Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale and Chillingworth. While the reason for these risks that are being taken place can be because of a simple lust between the two main characters, Hester and Dimmesdale, or even a mind dissolving retribution by the dynamic character known as Chillingworth. The certain risk that Hester took in the forest when she prearranged the meeting with Dimmesdale is the possibility that another townsmen could have seen her with him; as this would have been one of the biggest risks that Hester had taken for Pearl’s father in this book. Hester is a character that had experienced a large amount of justified insults and seclusion due to the sin that had been made public from the birth of her …show more content…
As with the birth of Pearl, the creation of the much needed risk for this book’s theme to take off and become of something to be known as this classic’s high prestige. After the point in the book where Hester was assigned to the trials upon the scaffold for her sin, she had been derived of personal contact with much of her own community, and in response, she had completely vowed that the secret to her lover’s name would remain anonymous. This initiated the starting point of the different risks Hester had taken throughout this novel and following that, a risk that was made when she sought out for Dimmesdale and to reveal him the truth about the man, Chillingworth and his actual intensions. In perspective, this scene held many different risks; one being the possibility that another person would seen them together and tell a higher person in the town, that would