the letter and human frailty
The Letter and Human Frailty
Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author of The Scarlet Letter, tells a tale of human
frailty and sorrow through each and every character.
When you first meet Hester Prynne, the main character, she seems quite
innocent. Only guilty of not naming her lover. Yet she is treated like an evil demon by
the Puritan community of the 1700’s because she broke the seventh commandment
The way they yelled “at the very least, …
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…her chest, but
Dimmesdale on the other hand has kept his sin under his clothes and it was literally
killing him.
In conclusion Dimmesdale, Chillingworth, and Hester were all sinners, some
sins worse than others. During this time period these sins were unheard of, that is why
they were treated the way they were. These characters were a perfect example of
“human frailty and sorrow”. Hester dying wearing the scarlet letter is the darkening
close.
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