One of the five stages of grief is denial. It is widely shown in literature. The common theme between The Scarlet Letter and “The Yellow Wall-paper” is not being able to accept the truth. In The Scarlet Letter, Mr. Dimmesdale has hard time accepting the fact that he committed a sin and in “The Yellow Wall-paper”, the narrator doesn’t think she is crazy but she is.
In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mr Dimmesdale struggles accepting or facing that he committed a sin with Hester Prynne. People of the society knows him as a very religious minister and that's why he couldn't tell anyone about his sin. He feared that what if he told the society and he wasn't accepted anymore just like Hester. Throughout the whole story, Hester has to go through the punishment by herself which was to wear the letter “A” on her breast all the time. In the Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale says "If thou feelest it to be for thy soul's peace, and that thy earthly punishment will thereby be made more effectual to salvation, I charge thee to …show more content…
In both stories the character goes through inner conflicts. It’s important to realise that in “The yellow wall-paper” the woman in the wallpaper is an image she is seeing of herself being trapped. People who are depressed are constantly stuck in their own minds. Sort of like being inside your own head and your eyes are just glass windows you can see out of, but cannot escape. She's seeing herself in the wallpaper trying to escape because she is also trying to escape her depression. When she is ripping off the wall paper and the woman is also ripping it from the inside, she thinks that the woman is helping her, but it's herself trying to escape. Just like that, in The scarlet Letter Dimmesdale goes through kind of like a mini depression because of a sin he committed. Dimmesdale reveals his truth to everyone at the end and he says now he will be able to die
In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mr Dimmesdale struggles accepting or facing that he committed a sin with Hester Prynne. People of the society knows him as a very religious minister and that's why he couldn't tell anyone about his sin. He feared that what if he told the society and he wasn't accepted anymore just like Hester. Throughout the whole story, Hester has to go through the punishment by herself which was to wear the letter “A” on her breast all the time. In the Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale says "If thou feelest it to be for thy soul's peace, and that thy earthly punishment will thereby be made more effectual to salvation, I charge thee to …show more content…
In both stories the character goes through inner conflicts. It’s important to realise that in “The yellow wall-paper” the woman in the wallpaper is an image she is seeing of herself being trapped. People who are depressed are constantly stuck in their own minds. Sort of like being inside your own head and your eyes are just glass windows you can see out of, but cannot escape. She's seeing herself in the wallpaper trying to escape because she is also trying to escape her depression. When she is ripping off the wall paper and the woman is also ripping it from the inside, she thinks that the woman is helping her, but it's herself trying to escape. Just like that, in The scarlet Letter Dimmesdale goes through kind of like a mini depression because of a sin he committed. Dimmesdale reveals his truth to everyone at the end and he says now he will be able to die