Part one of term paper
In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne, the Reverend Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth, find themselves in the guise of isolation, guilt, and bitter evil; these being their faults. The inner purpose of the story deals with the way in which these characters deal with their faults and how their faults are directly linked to violating the sanct ...

Part two of term paper
... conveyed. Leaving out the truth creates a margin of error in communication. No matter how meager in size that margin is, it creates gaps which can later become canyons. These canyons carry affect to all that try to cross, a lie can wound anyone whether they are involved directly or simply watching. Roger Chillingworth begins a chain of self-denying which soon travels to the other characters. He is an old and lonely scholar in England dehumanized by a life of abstruse studying. He makes the mist ...