The Scarlet Letter
During a person's lifetime, secrets in a personal relationship can at times, either tear people apart or bring them together. In the historical romance, The Scarlet Letter, the author Nathaniel Hawthorne, displays many accounts of deception and secrecy that have destructive consequences for many of the book's characters. Roger Chillingworth, Arthur Dimmsdale, Hester and Pearl Prynne, all major characters in the book, are entwined in plots and subplots involving secrecy and deception throughout the book.Hester Prynne kept a very important secret from Roger Chillingworth. As a result, Roger suffered many unhealthy side affects. His physical appearance changed. there came a glare of red light out of his eyes, as if the old man's soul were on fire, and kept on smoldering duskily within his breast, until, by some casual puff of passion, it was blown into a momentary flame (148). Roger was being deceived and yet was also deceiving.
For the characters in The Scarlet Letter, lives were torn apart, relationships were destroyed and love was forbidden. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. Her character also adds the dimension of time as she grows from a newborn baby, into a young adult. Pearl would grow positively terrible in her puny wrath, snatching up stones to fling at them, with shrill, incoherent exclamations that made her mother tremble. The spot where seven years since I should have stood with this woman, whose arm, more than the little strength wherewith I have crept hitherward. Hester's deception and secrecy also affected the child, Pearl Prynne. This subplot, woven throughout the book, illustrates the destructive nature of deception and secrecy. He longed to know Pearl's father and spent his life in the pursuit of punishment and torment of the person he suspected.
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