Atonement In The Scarlett Letter
Lord Byron’s quote, “The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity,” is one of a great concept. It suggests that without realizing and acknowledging that you have done wrong you don’t feel the need to fix yourself to be good, and by fixing yourself you express your own ideas about its necessity. This quote is applicable to the characters in “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The three primary characters of this novel, Hester, Chillingworth and Dimmesdale exhibited the qualities or lacked the qualities of this quote’s ideology as a result of their actions as a function of the outcome.
Hester was forced into societal atonement as a result of her “lustful ways.” She was put upon the scaffold in front of the general public …show more content…
He saw that what he did was a sin in the eyes of society and that he had to do everything he could to relieve himself of the “sinner” title. His atonement was between God and himself, since the people didn’t interpret his confessions as “confessions,” but more a religious philosophy. Even though Dimmesdale wanted the public to know of his deed so he could be one step in the correct direction for atonement, their blindness to his reality suppressed his wishes. He used self-atonement methods as a method of forgiveness. He used self-punishing, self-deprivation of sleep, among many other punishments, but it wasn’t enough for him and he died of guilt.
Atonement, it is one of the subjects that are center to the orbit of the plot and character development. Even if the characters didn’t receive or want atonement, the quote still applies in every manner. The quote works with the positive and negative aspects and thus can be applied to several parts of the story in a more universal manner. Hester, Chillingworth and Dimmesdale all have different circumstances, but they are all similar in the subject of atonement. Atonement is only attainable and valid when one truly sees their errors and want to appeal them with the promise of not committing the error in the
Hester was forced into societal atonement as a result of her “lustful ways.” She was put upon the scaffold in front of the general public …show more content…
He saw that what he did was a sin in the eyes of society and that he had to do everything he could to relieve himself of the “sinner” title. His atonement was between God and himself, since the people didn’t interpret his confessions as “confessions,” but more a religious philosophy. Even though Dimmesdale wanted the public to know of his deed so he could be one step in the correct direction for atonement, their blindness to his reality suppressed his wishes. He used self-atonement methods as a method of forgiveness. He used self-punishing, self-deprivation of sleep, among many other punishments, but it wasn’t enough for him and he died of guilt.
Atonement, it is one of the subjects that are center to the orbit of the plot and character development. Even if the characters didn’t receive or want atonement, the quote still applies in every manner. The quote works with the positive and negative aspects and thus can be applied to several parts of the story in a more universal manner. Hester, Chillingworth and Dimmesdale all have different circumstances, but they are all similar in the subject of atonement. Atonement is only attainable and valid when one truly sees their errors and want to appeal them with the promise of not committing the error in the