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 sanctity of the human heart by falling to social conform. By denying the passion that the heart naturally releases and suppressing feelings, actions, and thoughts in fear of social rule, these characters fall. If an emotion is deliberately conformed from the truth in order to hide an imperfection, by that action, it w....

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