Secrets in Scarlet Letter

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…He paints these pictures in the forms of two men, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingsworth, and draws a direct corollary in Hester Prynne who does the exact opposite and has her sin revealed to the public. While humiliated, when the sin is in the open, the soul heals and strengthens, while a guilty conscience resulting from an undisclosed sin, slowly corrodes the soul until the body no longer feels, and the mind slips into darkness.