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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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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