There are so many conflicts going on. You have of course the moral, Hester has comitted a sin and she must deal with the results. Dimsdale was also going through a hidden sin were it ate away at him slowly. You have social or emotional because Hester is casted off as an outcast and never was excepted by the others which put a tramendous pain on Hester. It also showa an intellectual conflict with Chillsworth causing all this pain through playing with other emotions and minds in general.
I find that moral is the bigger conflict in this book for the namesake it is of adultry. The puritans had a strict moral code and Hester and her lover broke it but only Hester was put to public shame. Dimsdale also had emotional conflict with is soul that refused to come clean
The major conflict is Hester and her affair with Dimmesdale while the result was a child and public shame of wearing the scarlet letter. She had to wear the letter and this brought conflict with herself and how she thought of her own morals, especially already being married. The conflicts in the Scarlet Letter contain emotional conflict, Hester having an affair with Dimmesdale, thus committing adultery and giving birth to a child. Physical conflict, she is forced to wear a sign of shame. Her public humiliation is an emotional conflict, as is her protection of Dimmesdale.
There are so many conflicts going on. You have of course the moral, Hester has comitted a sin and she must deal with the results. Dimsdale was also going through a hidden sin were it ate away at him slowly. You have social or emotional because Hester is casted off as an outcast and never was excepted by the others which put a tramendous pain on Hester. It also showa an intellectual conflict with Chillsworth causing all this pain through playing with other emotions and minds in general.
ReplyDeleteI find that moral is the bigger conflict in this book for the namesake it is of adultry. The puritans had a strict moral code and Hester and her lover broke it but only Hester was put to public shame. Dimsdale also had emotional conflict with is soul that refused to come clean
ReplyDeleteThe major conflict is Hester and her affair with Dimmesdale while the result was a child and public shame of wearing the scarlet letter. She had to wear the letter and this brought conflict with herself and how she thought of her own morals, especially already being married. The conflicts in the Scarlet Letter contain emotional conflict, Hester having an affair with Dimmesdale, thus committing adultery and giving birth to a child. Physical conflict, she is forced to wear a sign of shame. Her public humiliation is an emotional conflict, as is her protection of Dimmesdale.
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