The Result of Concealing Sin
In this fallen world, it is envitible that sin will encounter each and every person. Often times the sin is exposed, and the consiqeunces are faced. Other times sins are unnoticed or unpunished. In the circumstance that someone 's sin is privite, a decision between confessing or concealing the action must be made. Many people are under the impression that allowing their sin to be remain hidden will result with an escape of conciqence. Ironically, confession will have less of a negitive effect as it allows forgivness to enter the situation and remove the guilt. This emotion is very common In The Scarlet Letter as Nathaniel Hawthorne uses three characters who struggle with their sin either publically or privitely. …show more content…
The novel takes places in a puritanical society known as Boston. The Puritan 's beliefs were based upon the Bible and would be enforced without any leniency. Hester 's act of adultery was a sin that qualified for severe punishment in their eyes. Because the Puritan society is too ignorant to reconize everyone as a sinner, one of Hester 's conciqeunces is being forced to wear an embroaded letter on her chest to represent her sin. This letter only amplified and generated more harsh judgment toward her and created chaos throughout the town. Meanwhile the father of her child, and reverened, Dimmesales, was never exposed in his sin. After seven years, Dimmesales finally confessed his sin publically; prior to his final and greatest sermon, and almost instantly before his death. During the time of Dimesales secret, he tourtured himself mentally with guilt. He was also tourmented by Hester 's husbeen, Chlllingsworth, who deguised himself as a doctor to cast vengence. Originally, Chillingsworth was innocent, but he allows his emotions to transform himself into an embodiment of vengence and jealiously. As a result, his happiness is overshaddowed by …show more content…
Hawthorne showed that sin does not define who someone is, but how they handle the situation proir to the sin that reveals true character. Dimmedales conceals his sin, and because of this, his character is filled with guilt, deceit, and sorrow. More importantly, he slowly deteriorated both mentally and spiritually as his guilt expanded and his sins were multiplied. Hester, however, is the perfect role model for people who have been intangled by sin. She responds responsibilly to the conciqenzes after her confession with honestly, courage, strength, compassion, and humility. Therefore, she grows stronger as she is reconized for her true character and becomes respectable, dispite her sins. Instead of remaining shunned for being an adulterous, she overcomes the time of intense judgment with acceptence and strength to transform her image from dispisable to
In this fallen world, it is envitible that sin will encounter each and every person. Often times the sin is exposed, and the consiqeunces are faced. Other times sins are unnoticed or unpunished. In the circumstance that someone 's sin is privite, a decision between confessing or concealing the action must be made. Many people are under the impression that allowing their sin to be remain hidden will result with an escape of conciqence. Ironically, confession will have less of a negitive effect as it allows forgivness to enter the situation and remove the guilt. This emotion is very common In The Scarlet Letter as Nathaniel Hawthorne uses three characters who struggle with their sin either publically or privitely. …show more content…
The novel takes places in a puritanical society known as Boston. The Puritan 's beliefs were based upon the Bible and would be enforced without any leniency. Hester 's act of adultery was a sin that qualified for severe punishment in their eyes. Because the Puritan society is too ignorant to reconize everyone as a sinner, one of Hester 's conciqeunces is being forced to wear an embroaded letter on her chest to represent her sin. This letter only amplified and generated more harsh judgment toward her and created chaos throughout the town. Meanwhile the father of her child, and reverened, Dimmesales, was never exposed in his sin. After seven years, Dimmesales finally confessed his sin publically; prior to his final and greatest sermon, and almost instantly before his death. During the time of Dimesales secret, he tourtured himself mentally with guilt. He was also tourmented by Hester 's husbeen, Chlllingsworth, who deguised himself as a doctor to cast vengence. Originally, Chillingsworth was innocent, but he allows his emotions to transform himself into an embodiment of vengence and jealiously. As a result, his happiness is overshaddowed by …show more content…
Hawthorne showed that sin does not define who someone is, but how they handle the situation proir to the sin that reveals true character. Dimmedales conceals his sin, and because of this, his character is filled with guilt, deceit, and sorrow. More importantly, he slowly deteriorated both mentally and spiritually as his guilt expanded and his sins were multiplied. Hester, however, is the perfect role model for people who have been intangled by sin. She responds responsibilly to the conciqenzes after her confession with honestly, courage, strength, compassion, and humility. Therefore, she grows stronger as she is reconized for her true character and becomes respectable, dispite her sins. Instead of remaining shunned for being an adulterous, she overcomes the time of intense judgment with acceptence and strength to transform her image from dispisable to