“But she named her infant “Pearl,” as being a great price- purchased with all she has- her mother’s only pleasure.” The Scarlet Letter is one of many books wrote to teach the values of many possessions. But Hester’s scarlet letter is something much different. Hawthorne conveys the two central ideas of Sin and Temptation, and the Judgment of the Puritan Society to impact how the puritans believe everyone is born a sinner and how society judges them. The development of characters, setting, and plot in The Scarlet Letter are conveyed through the Puritan society, Hester, and the symbols between places such as the town and the forest, to show how judgment, original sin, and temptation spread through Hester and all the characters lives to impact
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Throughout the book, it reveals more and more about how a person can truly change for better or for worse. This is fully shown through Hester, her husband Roger Chillingsworth, and Author Dimmesdale. The central idea of Sin and Temptation reflect through Dimmesdale especially when Dimmesdale’s health starts to decline because he is hiding his sin from Chillingsworth and holding back the truth that Hester was with him when Chillingsworth was away in England. Dimmesdale’s sin causes his secrets to weigh heavily on him and trace back to the judgments of the Puritan society. On the other hand, Hester’s baby Pearl is beautiful and perfect towards the Puritan society, but follows along her mother’s actions and is badly behaved. In chapter 16, “A Forest Walk”, Pearl states, “Mother, the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom.” This explains how much of a deep meaning the scarlet letter has and how it affect Pearl. It portrays to the connection of sin and humanness. In chapter 12, “Fate and Free Will”, Dimmesdale states, “Then, and there, before the judgment seat, thy mother, and thou, and I, must stand together. But the daylight of this world shall not see our meeting!” This means that he knows he ‘must’ soon reveals what he has been hiding but he does not have the will to reveal
Throughout the book, it reveals more and more about how a person can truly change for better or for worse. This is fully shown through Hester, her husband Roger Chillingsworth, and Author Dimmesdale. The central idea of Sin and Temptation reflect through Dimmesdale especially when Dimmesdale’s health starts to decline because he is hiding his sin from Chillingsworth and holding back the truth that Hester was with him when Chillingsworth was away in England. Dimmesdale’s sin causes his secrets to weigh heavily on him and trace back to the judgments of the Puritan society. On the other hand, Hester’s baby Pearl is beautiful and perfect towards the Puritan society, but follows along her mother’s actions and is badly behaved. In chapter 16, “A Forest Walk”, Pearl states, “Mother, the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom.” This explains how much of a deep meaning the scarlet letter has and how it affect Pearl. It portrays to the connection of sin and humanness. In chapter 12, “Fate and Free Will”, Dimmesdale states, “Then, and there, before the judgment seat, thy mother, and thou, and I, must stand together. But the daylight of this world shall not see our meeting!” This means that he knows he ‘must’ soon reveals what he has been hiding but he does not have the will to reveal