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Evil in the Scarlet Letter
Title: Evil in the Scarlet Letter
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1114 | Pages: 4.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Evil in the Scarlet Letter
Evil in the Scarlet Letter
One belief that people live by is that evil is the nature of mankind, yet there are others that feel man has good intentions but those intentions can be overrun by the devil. Nathaniel Hawthorne points out that the former is true of all people in the novel The Scarlet Letter. In this novel, there are three main characters who commit evil and sinful acts, but each act is at …showed first 75 words of 1114 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1114 total…is one where Hester and Reverend Dimmesdale are in the woods and they are discussing the magnitude of their sin. Dimmesdale comments to Hester, "We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world. There is one worse than even the polluted priest! That old man’s revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart. Thou and I, Hester, never did so."(Ch.17 p.170)
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