Fear, Blame, and Lust in The Scarlet Letter

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a punishment for her sin and did the time for the wrong so it is justified and she is a better person because of it. The flaw behind this repentance is that the only thing that makes her act a sin is the view of that community. The character cannot be fully elaborated in its lonesome. The lust is an act of two people, Hester cannot be properly analyzed without the analysis of her fellow sinners, Dimmesdale and Chillingworth.
Dimmesdale’s greatest fear is that the townspeople will find out about his sin of adultery with Hester Prynne. Dimmesdale fears that his soul could not take the shame of such a disclosure, as he is an important moral figure in society. However, in not confessing his sin to the public, he suffers through the guilt of his sin, a pain which is exacerbated by the tortures of Roger Chillingworth. Though he consistently chooses guilt over shame, Dimmesdale goes through a much more painful experience than Hester, who endured the public shame of the scarlet letter. ...

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