Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Issue Of Punishment Of Sin
In Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne presents the idea that sins cause people to stray away from God but encourage us to be wary of judging others who have sinned. Through the use of symbolization and character development, the reader can infer that the punishment of sin causes the most suffering among those who were affected.
The Scarlet Letter is a case of the unpretentious division among writing since it has components messages and misuses that rise above societies and dialects. In spite of the fact that at first she was loaded up with despondency and humiliation over her demonstration of infidelity, Hester's decision to accept her activity allows her to thrive, transforming the feared Scarlet Letter into another significance. While this may appear like a shocking discipline at first, it really winds up working out extremely well for Hester. At first, the villagers are acquaint to Hester, who feels blame and disgrace from their judgmental looks and discourse. One villager tries to stop the people in the town from exclaiming “‘a stitch in that embroidered letter her heart’”. This means that the people were looking at her with a cold look because she has a letter A which is bold and red.
Furthermore, Hester's appearance starts to mirror her sentiments; she wears all the more disguising garments and sheathes her hair. Hester attempts to go ahead with her life as ordinary by setting up habitation on the edges of town and going up against sewing employments, and raising Pearl independent from anyone else. Hester is at first loaded with fear, knowing very well indeed that “she would become the general symbol of sin”. Be that as it may, as she starts to divert herself with her work and understand the gift of her child Pearl, the red "A" decorated on her chest starts to take new significance. The letter A symbolizes her secret sin. Once Hester accept her sin she was able to flourish from it. Hester was able to be her best self in order to seek forgiveness. As for Chillingworth's sin is that the manipulation of somebody's being. His deathly sin isn't committed as a result of he has to, however Chillingworth commits this sin as a result of he needs to. "Never did mortal suffer what Dimmesdale has suffered”. He wants revenge on Dimmesdale so he starts sinning. Chillingworth sins by killing a person. His intention was to get revenge on Dimmesdale, but he hurts the people in the town like Hester and Pearl because he commits a sin. Arthur Dimmesdale refuses to accept the act of adultery, throughout the novel even if it tears him apart. Dimmesdale in the beginning of the story want to keep the sin a secret. The deed already was troubling him as it is described in the text “who found himself at a loss in the pathway”. Dimmesdale try to control himself to the best of his ability, although it’s obvious that something is going on with him. His sin begins to affect his health because in the text it states, “a certain melancholy prophecy then a paleness, indicative of pain”. Dimmesdale health symbolizes the sin of adultery because once he accept what he has done wrong his health became better. In addition to his health becoming better, he ends up dying because he waited too long to accept his sin.
Hawthorne speaks directly to American problems, however he circumvents the aesthetic limitations accompany a focus. His universality and his dramatic flair create a place in the literary canon.
