Hester's Guilt In Scarlet Letter

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, a holy man named Dimmesdale commits his most profound sin. In the small town of Boston, a lonely woman named Hester Prynne waited for her husband to meet her in Boston. After years and years of waiting, she got tired and found a new lover. Soon after, Hester becomes pregnant, and the town is very shocked. By the adultery, she commits the town throws her away and locks her up. After many years in prison, Hester finally has her baby and names her Pearl. To represent of Hester’s sin, after prison she must wear the letter “A” on her chest and stand on the public scaffold, where you would be brought up to be publicly shamed for a crime. When Hester reaches freedom, the townspeople express curiosity about one thing: who the father was. The town wants both the mother and father of Pearl to be in the scaffold and be shamed for their wrong-doing. But Hester would not budge, she keeps the father a secret because …show more content…
He suffers tremendously because of how weak his guilt makes him. Keeping his feelings inside changed him from an admired minister to a saved sinner. Many people have much to do with his guilt; starting with the town. They made Dimmesdale into a mini-God of theirs. They glorified him as if he is this perfect person that everyone wants to be. This just reminds Dimmesdale that he can never live up to what the town expects of him. The other person would be Chillingworth, his motive for Dimmesdale is to suffer because of not confessing and being a man. The last person would be Dimmesdale himself, he made it even more hard on himself. If he would have only cared about God’s judgment and the towns’, then he would have lived longer and would have been a better example for other Puritans. Dimmesdale shows the town that not everyone can be perfect angels and live a holy life. Everyone makes mistakes, but it is how you deal with your mistakes that determines your