Guilt in Nathaniel Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter :: Scarlet Letter essays

Guilt in The crimson Letter             What is guilt?  We all have guilt astir(predicate) something.  Maybe forgetting something, lied about something, or even did something that shouldnt of been done.  In The ruby-red Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne we saw guilt fester in the minds and external appearance of the main characters, Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth.             When you hear the word guilt what do you speak up it means?  Guilt means remorseful awareness of having done something slander or of having failed to do something required or expected.  Does that sound about near?  Guilt is something everyone has.  Its this mental manifestation that lets us know when we did something wrong plainly no one knows it yet.  Guilt is very powerful.  Some people later on awhile give in to this guilt and confess what they did.             In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale commit a great sin. Because of this great sin, it causes them immense guilt and melancholy though out the rest of the book.  One of the main characters that is affected the close to is Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale handles it in a different way though, to him its more of a hidden sin.  A example of this is, It may be that they are kept tacit by the very constitution of their nature.  Or - can we not hypothesize it - guilty as they may be, retaining, nevertheless, a zeal for Gods glory and mans welfare, they take a hop from displaying themselves black and filthy in the view of men because, thenceforward, no dear can be achieved by them no evil or the preceding(a) be redeemed by better service.  Dimmesdale also has other actor for his concealing, he wants to remain silent so that he can wrap up to do Gods work as a minister.        &n bsp    Hester Prynne handles her guilt in another way.  Instead of worrying about it day after day and let to fester, she makes it outward.  At the beginning of the book she wears the most awesome clothes and shows the founding shes not guilty for what she has done.  An example of this is, And never had Hester Prynne appeared more lady-like, in the passee interpretation of the term,