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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 t ....
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.... 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 not, to any soul,
that thou didst ever call me husband." Hester shows great strength of
character by her ability to keep th ....
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