The Disease of Guilt Several things could be said about Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter. The focus of The Scarlet Letter is, guilt can rip apart your life. The fact that Hester can see the devil in her own daughter’s eyes, and the way that Dimmesdale torments himself nightly with tools of pain. It is like an almost incurable disease that rips apart at their lives. Hester is a woman who under the …showed first 75 words of 450 total…

…showed last 75 words of 450 total…mentally insane, but he seemed all fine when the book started. This proves that he was not because mental insanity does not appear just like that. In conclusion, the fact that, Guilt can rip apart your life has been proven by the content of this paper. This multiplying disease was unknowingly breaking them down. They did not know how to stop it or change it. They would never know happiness until they admitted their sin.