Analysis Of Hester And Mr. Dimmesdale In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

All people are assigned letters. Hester and Mr. Dimmesdale are examples of taking two different approaches to a similar problem. Hester faced her challenge and used it as a chance to change, while Mr. Dimmesdale let himself be tortured by it. They both went different ways, and they both had very different outcomes. Hester lived a better life and fulfilled many more things than Mr. Dimmesdale did. He hid and tortured himself at night overall destroying himself. Hester and Mr. Dimmesdale have received letters in very different ways. We are all assigned a letter to ourselves someday whether it being done by someone you know, or by yourself. Hester had a baby with someone other than her husband, she was then assigned a letter on the outside of
It is like living a double life and living a double life is very hard. It is most likely that this double life will be your downfall in the years to come because at some point, it becomes so terrible you can’t bear it anymore. I think that the letter is I have been telling some lies so an L is starting to form very slightly, and I need to stop and shake it off. I have been telling some lies here and there so that I can get away from working and life. I need to kill this letter as it is dragging me down and it is getting me nowhere in life. It is not something that I would like to bear any longer and I would like to be true to my word. If you get caught you lose that trust with someone. The lies that I tell can get me to lose trust with my parents, and then I have nothing to help me with them. They won’t do anything for me anymore, until I earn it back. I don’t want this letter to drag me down and I want to be strong and fight it on my own. We all assign letters to people, no matter if we know them or if we haven’t even met. It takes a person only a few seconds to just label them and not think of it as badly. It is just how the human mind works. In the end how Hester and Dimmesdale handled being given a letter showed what their true characteristics were. I want to be able to change my characteristics because I do not like them at this moment