the letter and human frailty
Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author of The Scarlet Letter, tells a tale of humanfrailty and sorrow through each and every character. When you first meet Hester Prynne, the main character, she seems quiteinnocent. Only guilty of not naming her lover. Yet she is treated like an evil demon bythe Puritan community of the 1700's because she broke the seventh commandment The way they yelled "at the very least, they should have put the brand of hot iron onHester Prynne." (Hawthorne 69) this is a perfect example of how the behavior of thecharacters tells a story of human frailty and sorrow. Hester took great pride ineverything she did from the letter 'A' on her
These characters were a perfect example of "human frailty and sorrow". "Atthe final hour, when she was so soon to fling aside the burning letter, it had strangelybecome the centre of more remark and excitement, and was thus made to sear herbreast more painfully, than at any time since the first day she put it on. Dimmesdale's status as a minister made the guilt so bad it was makinghim sick. " (Hawthorne 172) Chillingworth's attacks onDimmesdale were to make Dimmesdale weak and when he saw Dimmesdale's Scarletletter on his chest he laughed instead if feeling for the poor desperate man. It wasthe pride of Hester Prynne that forced her to wear the Scarlet letter to her death. Chillingworth was the most selfish in the story, he married Hesterwithout Hester's love in return and this was one of the sins that refers to Hawthorne's"human frailty" . Dimmesdale, perhaps the most complex character in the book, is damned withthe guilt of his sin "burn[ing] in secret" (Hawthorne), and damned by his desire forHester Prynne. He needed to be open and reveal his dark secret. "And itseemed a fouler offense committed by Roger Chillingworth than any which had sincebeen done him, that, in the time when her heart knew no better, he had persuaded herto fancy herself happy by his side. Dimmesdale keeping thissin hidden was his real sin itself, by far worse than Hester's. Chillingworth was the sinner that goes with human frailty. During this time period these sins were unheard of, that is whythey were treated the way they were.
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