Essays on Sin

In the modern world, the concepts of sin, weakness, human responsibility and guilty conscience can all be intertwined in the Christian tradition. As a child, I was taught that human beings are prone to sin (as an action) and tend to give in to that...

The Divina commedia has been a source of inspiration in pop culture since Dante’s death in 1321. Several aspects of Dante’s work have been widely incorporated in modern popular culture, whilst some literary decisions he made have been left to the Middle Ages. Dante’s piece...

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘The Black Veil of the Minister’ exemplifies the sins we commit separate us from each other as a whole. Throughout this story Reverend Hooper wears a dark veil and never takes it off. He has noted a dark, concealed self of secret sin...

“Happy are you, Hester, that wear the scarlet letter openly upon your bosom! Mine burns in secret!” (Hawthorne) In The Scarlett Letter Arthur Dimmesdale expresses great spiritual torment and shame from the secret he holds inside him, he expresses his agony by inflicting pain on...

The Scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne at its core, is a story of two supernatural forces battling each other to gain control. Every culture has a name for these forces: Ying and Yang, Good and Evil, but in the novel, they are known as sin...

The Scarlet Letter was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. His vision was to help the readers know and analyze the main attraction of sin and redemption. They are all humans and subject to temptations in society. In other words, they can fall from grace at any given...

The Scarlet Letter is a novel that requires the reader to look deep into its’ extensive characters in order to find all of the different themes and messages hidden inside. One of these topics, however, is incredibly prominent – this being the search and personal...