mmesdale’s guilt in order to further his own passionate plot for revenge. Hawthorne show what great lengths Chillingworth will go to when he describe Dimmesdale’s new room with Chillingworth, “The walls were hung round with tapestry, said to be from the Gobelin looms, and, at all event, representing the Scriptural story of David and Bathsheba, and Nathan the prophet”(86), Chillingworth goes as far as to decorate Dimmesdale’s room with portraits of famous acts of adultery. Dimmesdale’s sorry existence shows the novels theme. The theme of guilt in The Scarlet Letter is a rather prominent one. The moral of the story is also based in guilt; it is better to be forthcoming and honest, the oneself, to ones peers, and to god, about ones sins, rather than to hide them and let guilt eat away, and eventually ruin your very existence. This is ironically a belief shared by the Puritan church, which Hawthorne does not exactly praise in the novel. Hester airs her guilt with the town and although it is hard for her at first she does not really suffer. Dimmesdale on the other hand hide his sin and guilt ruins his life and eventually leads to his death. ...
