Essay On Light And Dark In The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter’s author Nathaniel hawthorne, showed just how the Puritans were people who believed that the world was a place full of evil and that the only way to fight this evil and not become it was to follow god's word strictly and that the bible was the ultimate rule of the land and that nothing could challenge it . In the Scarlet Letter, Characters face both internal and external problems with themselves that symbolises the battle between light and dark, good vs evil, and right vs wrong and how sin in that time period of history affected how a person thought, felt and acted towards certain things. In the book Scarlet Letter Hawthorne, Hawthorne shows the battle between light & dark by usings the character conflicts to represent the good and evil in people and how it can manifest not just on the inside but …show more content…
She deals with a society who uses her as a sheet and a distraction to cover their own sins and crimes that they don't want to come to light (Subverting the Subversive: Hawthorne’s Containment of Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter) After Hester commits her sin of adultery, the beauty of her personality and the way she acts almost all but a little goes away and she is perceived as a person belonging to darkness. Her hair no longer hangs freely about her face, and instead she ties it up in a bonnet. In the book Hester is not described as an evil person , but her sin makes her "light" and happiness fade away and unable to be seen by the people in the book (Donoghue). In a society where nothing happens in their everyday lives, Hester’s crime comes to light and causes a frenzy of excitement that the community feeds off of cause their everyday lives nothing happens so an event such as this one has everyone's attention.. Even when on a walk