A Scarlet Letter: Honesty Heals a Guilty Heart Humans like to think of themselves as faultless, but sin is inevitable. Mankind is a sinful race; therefore, everyone has sinned. Yet not every person has the ability to address the concept of sin and also display it in a way that causes others to look at their lives through critical eyes. Nathaniel Hawthorne was successful in writing a novel that accentuated sin and guilt interchangeably, while revealing to the readers the consequences of living with sin as a guideline. The Scarlet Letter is a masterpiece that Hawthorne based upon a scarlet letter he discovered in an ancient dresser and a tombstone inscribed with a capital “A.” This letter “A” proved to be the primary focus because it had direct influence on every person in the novel. His characters lived interchangeable but distinct lives with different ....

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