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"To be fully human is to balance the heart, the mind, and the spirit.” One could suggest the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, that one should not violate the sanctity of the human heart. Hester was well ahead of her time, and believed that ....

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.... doom when she concealed Chillingsworth’s identity from Dimmesdale. The effects these events had were the separation from her society, her lover, her husband, her child, and her own best self. She did it all in the name of sanctity, for true love, and she paid the price. Dimmesdale was changed by the affair in a way that “ [he] grew emaciated; his voice, though still rich and sweet had a [tone] of decay.” As a believing Puritan, Dimmesdale saw himself as “predestined” for damnation. Hawthorne explained how the poor man “kept silent by the very constitution of [his] nature.” Dimmesdale wanted to be with Hes ....