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A Scarlet Letter: Honesty Heals a Guilty Heart
Humans like to think of themselves as faultless, but sin is inevitable. Mankind is a sinful race; therefore, everyone has sinned. Yet not every person has the ability to address the concept of sin and also display it in a way that causes others to look at their lives through critical eyes. Nathaniel Hawthorne was successful in writing a novel that accentuated sin and guilt interchangeably, while revealing to the readers the consequences of living with sin as a guideline. The Scarlet Letter is a masterpiece that Hawthorne based upon a scarle....
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