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Essay Archive - 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 deception
to promote oneself to a higher level, or to hide one's past, has been a
common occurrence. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne ,
Chillingworth and Dimmesdale both use deception to hide secrets from each
other, and from the rest of the town.
Hester Prynne is the only one who knows the secrets that Dimmesdale
and Chillingworth ar....
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