Guilt In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
“Guilt is through the spirit and Pain is the body.” Everyone is sinful or guilty in a way, whether it is lying or doing adultery. It is mistakes that are caused by people. Because you will have to be guilty first in order to suffer the pain that was caused by their sin. Mr. Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne had to suffer his own sin and can’t find a way to confess to the society, no one understands what is he going through. Hester has to suffer from her own sin with everyone be disgusted by her, wish to not have any relationship with her. This is the same with John Proctor in The Crucible by Arthur Miller. He had to suffer a sin of his own, due to the affair between him and Abigail Williams. Therefore he has to face
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In The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale is suffering from the guilt for his own sin, but he can’t tell anyone the truth and no one will actually realizes what kind of pain that he is going through. "Had I one friend, —or were it my worst enemy! —to whom, when sickened with the praises of all other men, I could daily betake myself, and be known as the vilest of all sinners, I thinks my soul might keep itself alive thereby. Even thus much of truth would save me! But now, it is all falsehood! —all emptiness! —all death!" (Hawthorne 188). He now has no one that will understand him, all he has is emptiness, falsehood, and death. He is all alone, suffering through the pain that his own sin have given him. No one judging and no one bother to care how he really is going on in the inner parts of him. This shows that loneliness, emptiness, and the guilt are really just corrupting the spirt in the deepest part of our hearts, just for the reason that people committed crime. This also shows that the sufferings are real; it is hard to accept of how big of an impact it can do to the spirit and body. It is really damaging the sinner’s whole life. There are many additional ways that people have to suffer the hurt that are from their own
In The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale is suffering from the guilt for his own sin, but he can’t tell anyone the truth and no one will actually realizes what kind of pain that he is going through. "Had I one friend, —or were it my worst enemy! —to whom, when sickened with the praises of all other men, I could daily betake myself, and be known as the vilest of all sinners, I thinks my soul might keep itself alive thereby. Even thus much of truth would save me! But now, it is all falsehood! —all emptiness! —all death!" (Hawthorne 188). He now has no one that will understand him, all he has is emptiness, falsehood, and death. He is all alone, suffering through the pain that his own sin have given him. No one judging and no one bother to care how he really is going on in the inner parts of him. This shows that loneliness, emptiness, and the guilt are really just corrupting the spirt in the deepest part of our hearts, just for the reason that people committed crime. This also shows that the sufferings are real; it is hard to accept of how big of an impact it can do to the spirit and body. It is really damaging the sinner’s whole life. There are many additional ways that people have to suffer the hurt that are from their own