Danger in Betraying Trust ( Scarlet Letter Theme Paper)

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter the failure to be true always leads to a painful consequence. Hester, Dimmsdale, and Chillingworth all withhold truth from someone else, and in doing so they all manage to cause someone else some sort of pain.
Hester breaks the trust of her husband when she cheats on Chillingworth with Dimmsdale. This, however, would have never come to pass if Chillingworth had never thought that he could make her marry an older, deformed man she could never love and have the marriage work. Even Chillingworth knew it beforehand: “I might have known that [as I] entered this establishment of Christian men the very first object to meet my eyes would be th



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Hester, Dimmsdale, and Chillingworth all paid for failing to be true. Hester was misled after having been married to a man she did not love. It brought her exile and pearl. Dimmsdale commits the same sin as Hester, but takes it further by hiding it from the community when he is supposed to be one who teaches the truth. It eventually costs him his life. Chillingworth seeks revenge on Dimmsdale, which eventually causes Chillingworth to wither and die after Dimmsdale dies. “Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister’s miserable experience, we only put this into a sentence: - ‘Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trai

Some topics in this essay:
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Marriage, Chillingworth, Suffering, The Scarlet Letter, Hester, Causality, Pain, Mr Dimmsdale, Shame,

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PROFESSIONAL ESSAYS:

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