Truth In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
Lying will leave one with guilt. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”, the truth sets the characters free. Pearl is the living, walking, talking version of the truth. The scaffold is used to reveal the truth of people's sins. The scarlet letter reveals the truth of Hester’s sin, and the sunlight shines on those who are being truthful. Hawthorne uses symbolism to express the theme of the truth.
Hawthorne uses Pearl as a symbol of the truth. Pearl is the living version of the truth. Pearl does not lie nor keep secrets from her mother or anyone else. She can see the truth in people. Pearl states, “ Come away, or yonder old Black Man will catch you! He hath got hold of the minister already,” ( Hawthorne, 107 ); Pearl sees what kind of …show more content…
The scaffold is used three times in “The Scarlet Letter” to reveal the truth of sins. The first time the scaffold reveal the truth of Hester’s sin of adultery to the whole village. The second time Dimmesdale gets on the scaffold in the middle of the night to reveal his hidden sin. The third time Dimmesdale climbs on top of the scaffold with Hester and Pearl to reveal that he is Hester’s lover and Pearl’s father to the …show more content…
As the story progress the sunlight avoids Hester because she starts to keep secrets, Pearl tells her, “ Mother, the sunshine does not love you. it runs away and hides itself,” (Hawthorne, 144). Pearl, on the other hand, is always in the sunlight because she is the truth. Dimmesdale was also keeping secrets, but the night he stood hand and hand with Pearl and Hester, none of them was keeping a secret so the meteor’s, “crimson light,” (Hawthorne, 122) shined upon them. While Hester and Dimmesdale are talking in the wood and Hester tells Dimmesdale who Chillingworth really is, both of them speak their mind to each other and had guilt-free happiness, and “ All at once, as with a sudden smile of heaven, forth burst the sunshine, pouring a very flood into the obscure forest,” (Hawthorne, 159). At the end of the novel, the sunlight shines one more time. Dimmesdale climbs the scaffold once more with Hester and Pearl , but this time in front of the whole village, and confesses his sin. Just before he dies the sunlight shine on them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbolism in his “ The Scarlet Letter” to express the theme of the truth. Pearl, the scaffold, the scarlet letter, and the sunshine are used as symbols of the truth. Throughout “The Scarlet Letter” there are lies and hidden secrets, but at the end, the truth comes
Hawthorne uses Pearl as a symbol of the truth. Pearl is the living version of the truth. Pearl does not lie nor keep secrets from her mother or anyone else. She can see the truth in people. Pearl states, “ Come away, or yonder old Black Man will catch you! He hath got hold of the minister already,” ( Hawthorne, 107 ); Pearl sees what kind of …show more content…
The scaffold is used three times in “The Scarlet Letter” to reveal the truth of sins. The first time the scaffold reveal the truth of Hester’s sin of adultery to the whole village. The second time Dimmesdale gets on the scaffold in the middle of the night to reveal his hidden sin. The third time Dimmesdale climbs on top of the scaffold with Hester and Pearl to reveal that he is Hester’s lover and Pearl’s father to the …show more content…
As the story progress the sunlight avoids Hester because she starts to keep secrets, Pearl tells her, “ Mother, the sunshine does not love you. it runs away and hides itself,” (Hawthorne, 144). Pearl, on the other hand, is always in the sunlight because she is the truth. Dimmesdale was also keeping secrets, but the night he stood hand and hand with Pearl and Hester, none of them was keeping a secret so the meteor’s, “crimson light,” (Hawthorne, 122) shined upon them. While Hester and Dimmesdale are talking in the wood and Hester tells Dimmesdale who Chillingworth really is, both of them speak their mind to each other and had guilt-free happiness, and “ All at once, as with a sudden smile of heaven, forth burst the sunshine, pouring a very flood into the obscure forest,” (Hawthorne, 159). At the end of the novel, the sunlight shines one more time. Dimmesdale climbs the scaffold once more with Hester and Pearl , but this time in front of the whole village, and confesses his sin. Just before he dies the sunlight shine on them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbolism in his “ The Scarlet Letter” to express the theme of the truth. Pearl, the scaffold, the scarlet letter, and the sunshine are used as symbols of the truth. Throughout “The Scarlet Letter” there are lies and hidden secrets, but at the end, the truth comes