Scarlet letter persuasive

The ability to tell right from wrong is a quality valued and praised in every society of every time. This is also true in the Scarlet Letter. This ability to tell right from wrong, or making a decision that does not harm or offend anyone or their values is seen throughout the novel in the manifestation of the society’s feelings for the character. From the beginning of the novel and through a large portion of the novel, Arthur Dimmesdale is send as a person with high morals, and as a respectable person. He is seen as a person who has not made “wrong” decisions. This assumption by the people is false, but regardless he is praised as a person. On the inside however, Dimmesdale knows of his sin, and he knows he made a wrong decision. He tears himself apart, torturing himself, and wasting away. Hester Prynne starts off as person who has made a “wrong” decision. The whole town gathers to bea

This ability to tell right from wrong is believed to be taught rather than inherent. In the novel Hester almost loses her child because the towns citizens fear Pearl is not receiving the proper Christian raising and on a path to sin. They are basically afraid she is making to many of the “wrong” decisions. Which is true from the perspective of the time, but can it really be taught? Pearl is young and free spirited. She has no perception of right from wrong but there is a connection in her self, which knows something, is not right. When Pearl throws a rock and hits the bird, she realized that her actions were hurtful to the bird, and was immediately sympathetic. No one was there to tell her it was wrong, but still she was able to distinguish her action as wrong. In the novel, Roger Chillingsworth, the story’s antagonist said he was a kind, calm man, and Hester says “that and more.” So he must have known what “right” was, but then strayed from righteousness on his own. Hester and Dimmesdale had only committed one sin in their life, but it wasn’t unti

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