The Scarlet Letter

The scarlet letter is a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the late of 1840s . This novel talks about Hester Prynne who had to wear a Scarlet Letter “A”  as a result of her adultery and she was imprisoned because of her sin  .She gave birth to  a baby girl named pearl and she had delivered this baby when her husband has been away for two full years . Prynne had to wear this letter and to walk through town in order people can see her and can see her shame. later on  Hester Prynne's husband arrives in disguise , Once she is back in prison, he shows up and orders her to keep her mouth shut so he can know who is the person that she had sinned with and seeking revenge on her lover .Hester's husband tells the townspeople that he's a physician whose name is  Roger Chillingworth. His a smart man, so he realizes that the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is the likely father of Hester's baby. And he moves on to live with Dimmesdale and he was able to see him suffer spiritually from his guilt because Dimmesdale was not able to confess his sin in front of others. This situation continues for 7 years.

Finally, Hester realizes that her husband has been doing some psychological manipulation to the father of her daughter  and she tells Dimmesdale about the real identity of Chillingworth. They plan to run away  and to settle in England by creating a new life together , but Dimmesdale confesses his sin to the townspeople on the scaffold where Hester was publicly shamed seven years earlier. He goes out with a bang by ripping his shirt open to reveal the mark on his chest, just before dying. One year later, Chillingworth dies and leaves all his money and property to Pearl, which means that pearl and her mom can return to England to build a new life. After several years  Hester  returns to town and she lives back in her cottage and when she dies, she's buried near the minister, and they share a gravestone marked with the letter "A."

 Indeed It’s a great Novel in which it makes you hooked to it . When you read this novel you start to think of people whom you wronged or people in which you judged them based on their reputation or based on what was spoken of them . As we know Hester was humiliated in front  of the townspeople because she had committed a certain Sin , But everyone of us has a deep dark secret ,we are not perfect and we have to learn how to forgive others. Moreover this novel explains that not everything that shines is gold ! .Dimmesdale who was a priest was also a sinner, but the townspeople didn’t know this and they used to cherish priests and to consider them perfect . We should not be fooled by appearances, we should always give people a second chance This novel highlights the idea that revenge leads to evilness, when you want to revenge you will do things that are not right and you will become evil Just as Chillingworht in which he was seeing how Dimmesdale was suffering day after day and he still  enjoyed seeing him suffering . This Novel allows you to visualize how Hester was humiliated when she stood on the platform in front of everyone and how people used to gossip about her , they didn’t sympathize with the little girl even though she had nothing to do with it , she was raised alone and she had no friends . A reader starts to believe if he/she had been there  he she/he would do something to stop what’s happening and to stand on Hester’s side. No matter what happens in life we should always say the truth and seek for it .Also This novel highlights the idea that for every action there will be certain consequence , if we did something wrong we should expect that we will punished As Hester and Dimmesdale were punished . The novel uses Hester to represent severe physical punishment where as Dimmesdale represents the agony of spiritual punishment , So we as readers will be able to analyze that the spiritual punishment is much more greater than the physical punishment and no matter what happens the truth will be revealed and we must not deny the truth .