The Scarlet Letter: Do You Dread Guilt?
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What is guilt? We all have guilt about something. Maybe forgetting
something, lied about something, or even did something that shouldn't of been
done. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne we saw guilt fester in the
minds and outward appearance of the main characters, Hester Prynne, Art ....
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.... that is affected
the most is Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale handles it in a different way though,
to him its more of a "concealed sin." A example of this is, "It may be that
they are kept silent by the very constitution of their nature. Or - can we not
suppose it - guilty as they may be, retaining, nevertheless, a zeal for God's
glory and man's welfare, they shrink from displaying themselves black and filthy
in the view of men; because, thenceforward, no good can be achieved by them ....
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