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The Scarlet Letter: Secrets. We Have Them, We Hide Them, but Can We Live With Them?
The Scarlet Letter: Secrets. We Have Them, We Hide Them, but Can We Live
With Them?
Deception is defined by Webster's Dictionary as the art of
misrepresentation. Throughout the history of mankind, the use of decep ....
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.... wife,
although Hester should not have had to tell him. I think that Dimmesdale
should have admitted that he was Pearl's father. Today, if a priest
admitted such a crime, he would probably be sent to jail. However, in the
novel, had Dimmesdale confessed, the townsfolk would have liked him even
more. Hester also has to live with, and conceal, the secret that the
scholar, Chilling worth, is her husband. When he comes to visit her in
jail he says, "Thou hast kept the secret of thy paramour. Keep, likewise,
mine! There are none in this land that know me. Breathe ....
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