Guilt In The Scarlet Letter

Guilt is the negative feeling of responsibility or remorse for committing some offense, crime, or wrongdoing. There are different causes of guilt; Guilt can be directly caused by someone doing malicious activity to another, or indirectly feeling bad for not committing something that one has no control over . Regardless of which feeling of guilt, each person has experienced this feeling at one point of a their life. One can attribute this feeling to what Reverend Dimmesdale, member to the Puritan society, felt in The Scarlet Letter when he directly committed adultery with Hester Prynne. Dimmsdale considered himself the “deepest man of guilt” after going against his teachings of quintessential Puritan behavior, and also left Hester to suffer