The Power of Secrets in The Scarlet Letter :: Scarlet Letter essays

The Power of Secrets in The reddish Letter             Deception is defined by Websters Dictionary as the invention of misrepresentation.  Throughout the history of mankind, the use of deception to promote oneself to a higher(prenominal) level, or to hide ones past, has been a common occurrence. In the novel The violent Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne , Chillingworth and Dimmesdale some(prenominal) use deception to hide secrets  from each other, and from the nap of the town.             Hester Prynne is the only one who notices the secrets that Dimmesdale and Chillingworth are hiding from the townsfolk.  Hester has to control her desire  to see to it the truth and practices the art of deception  to hide these secrets.   When she will not go against  the father of Pearl,  Reverend Dimmesdale says, She will not speak.  It is  ironic that the person who perpetrate the sin with Hester is the one who announces publicly  that she will not reveal the summon of the other sinner.   Later, Chilling worth wants to know who it is and he says, Thou wilt not reveal his name?  Hester refuses and continues to hold her silence.  Then Chillingworth, still move to find out the name of her lover, comments, . . . but Hester, the man lives who has wronged us both Who is he?  When he says this, he is hinting that he is going to do something to Dimmesdale.  This is why Hester makes Chillingworth promise not to kill her lover if he finds out his identity.  Chillingworth deserves to know  who slept with his wife, al honey oilgh Hester should not have had to tell him.  I think that Dimmesdale should have admitted that he was Pearls father. Today, if a priest admitted such a  crime, he would probably be sent to tuck away. However, in the novel, had  Dimmesdale confessed, the  townsfolk woul d have liked him even more. Hester alike has to live with, and conceal, the secret that the scholar, Chilling worth, is her husband.  When he comes to visit her in jail he says, Thou hast kept the secret of thy paramour.  Keep, likewise, mine  There are none in this land that know me. Breathe not, to any soul, that thou didst ever call me husband.