Scarlet Letter Guilt Quotes
While reading The Scarlet Letter book I had a little trouble with understanding the words and how it was used back in the days because they have different meanings to it now. The Scarlet letter brought out many morals to me along with the themes that I was given to explain. If I would have to make up a theme or moral of the story, is not to lie because the more you hold in the lie the deeper the guilt grows you it will make you into a different person, it will make you become something you don't want to become it will make you turn into something terrible that honestly you would not want to become. The first theme that I have chosen was that Guilt can destroy a person's, body and soul. The theme of that book is for Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale
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The direct quote will support “Guilt can destroy a person's, body, and soul.” The direct quote that follows that is , “While thus suffering under bodily disease, and gnawed and tortured by some black trouble of the soul, and given over to the machinations of his deadliest enemy, the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale had achieved a brilliant popularity in his sacred office. He won it, indeed, in great part by his sorrows” and this was found in Chapter 11 on page 146. This direct quote will support the following theme “Revenge destroys both the victim and the seeker.” The direct quote that follows that is, “To his features, as to all other objects, the meteoric light imparted a new expression; or it might well be that the physician was not careful then, as at all other times, to hide the malevolence with which he looked upon his victim.” this was when Dimmesdale's guilt was lifted off but Chillingworth still looked guilty and evil and this is found in Chapter 12 on the end of page 161 following to page 162.
In The Scarlet Letter there were a few lessons that you could have learned with direct quotes that were following that, each theme was tied to a different person and the troubles that each person went to but in reality I would have to say that each theme was tied to the 3 main characters in some sort of way. The people that I have chosen to explain each theme by is how they expressed the theme
The direct quote will support “Guilt can destroy a person's, body, and soul.” The direct quote that follows that is , “While thus suffering under bodily disease, and gnawed and tortured by some black trouble of the soul, and given over to the machinations of his deadliest enemy, the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale had achieved a brilliant popularity in his sacred office. He won it, indeed, in great part by his sorrows” and this was found in Chapter 11 on page 146. This direct quote will support the following theme “Revenge destroys both the victim and the seeker.” The direct quote that follows that is, “To his features, as to all other objects, the meteoric light imparted a new expression; or it might well be that the physician was not careful then, as at all other times, to hide the malevolence with which he looked upon his victim.” this was when Dimmesdale's guilt was lifted off but Chillingworth still looked guilty and evil and this is found in Chapter 12 on the end of page 161 following to page 162.
In The Scarlet Letter there were a few lessons that you could have learned with direct quotes that were following that, each theme was tied to a different person and the troubles that each person went to but in reality I would have to say that each theme was tied to the 3 main characters in some sort of way. The people that I have chosen to explain each theme by is how they expressed the theme