Scarlett Letter Sin Essay

The Different Shades of Sins An Irish Proverb states All Sins mildew long shadows. Throughout the novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne viewed the blunder outs as a spectrum of many colors. The novel revolves around Hester Prynne, who is convicted of adultery in colonial Salem by the Puritan society. For her punishment, she is condemned to wear the red blood-red letter A on her chest as a permanent sign of her sin.Exposing to sin and the temptation of its concealment in bizarre degrees, Nathaniel Hawthorne demonstrated the different shades of sins through the actions of several main characters, Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. In the beginning of the book, we learn Hester Prynne perpetrate the sin of adultery. Although meant to crush Hesters spirit, she is proud of her sin and becomes a strong, tough minded character. While the origin Hawthorne has Puritan heritage, he portrays Hester as one of the most able of people in Salem because she bl ackleged her sin.While the sacred and high ranking citizens of Salem continue to ridicule her for being and adulteress, many people refused to interpret the scarlet A by its original signification (168). The product of this sin was Hesters daughter off-white. Unlike the federal agency of the Puritans, Hester creates beauty, shining through the gorgeous robes (87) of Pearl, and thus Pearl stands out in crowds. To Hester, her sin was marrying someone she did not love, Roger Chillingworth. In the eyes of Hester and Dimmesdale, they are not the worst sinners in the world.There is one worse than even the soil priest That old mans revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart. cat valium and I, Hester, never did so (225) Going against the heart is the greatest sin possible to Hester and Dimmesdale and their sin was between 2 people who truly loved each other. Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is the father of Pearl and the one who comm itted the sin of adultery with Hester. As a man of high power in Salem, he does not confess the sin and the mental guilt would slowly bulge out him.Eventually, his moral force was abased into more than childish helplessness (105) Through the ability Hester has shown and the miserable state of Dimmesdale, Hawthorne shows the power of confessing a sin. In an attempt to escape for their pasts, Hester, Pearl, and Dimmesdale intend to leave Salem. However, Roger Chillingworth, Hesters legal husband, excessively catches a ride on the same boat. Returning to Salem, Hester, Dimmesdale, and Pearl go the scaffold, the place where Hester is originally condemned. In his dieing moments, Dimmesdale confesses his sin in front of the townspeople while also revealing a self inflicted A on his chest.Of all the sinners, Roger Chillingworth was the biggest. First, his sin of marrying a younger women and direct her over sees causes the adultery claim. When he arrives in Salem and learns of this, he commits his biggest sin violating the human heart. Rather than Hesters adultery being her sin, Hawthorne goes against Puritan values by making violating the heart Hesters true sin. At first, Chillingworth asks Hester to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow-sufferer (56) When she refuses, Chillingworth becomes an evil man, becoming uglier by the day.This shows that an unconfessed sin will kill you. Eventually, he becomes aware of the adultery with Hester and becomes Dimmesdales leech. After Dimmesdale dies, Chillingworth dies because he has no reason to live anymore. base on Puritan beliefs, sin is an inescapable aspect of life. Hawthorne shows that Dimmesdale and Chillingworth both die because of their hidden sin. Contrary to this Hester, who confessed, lives a long, happy life. Since sin is inescapable, the only way to make up for it is by confessing or else the sin mush shadow you forever.