We can find many such
ideas in the book's final chapter. The narrator says, for example,
Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait
whereby the worst may be inferred!
It is important, as we
see in the story, to be honest about one's true nature; otherwise, if one is not, it can slowly
erode one's life and seem to eat them up from the inside out.is not honest about his own sins
and true nature, and the guilt tears him apart for seven years before he finally dies,
tragically, upon the scaffold.also hides his nature from the world, and he grows more and more
corrupt throughout the novel as a result of his hatred of Dimmesdale. Hawthorne seems to suggest
that everyone benefits when everyone is honest about their own sinful natures; if people believe
that everyone around them is sinless, then they will be afraid to admit their own sins, and this
will negatively impact their lives....
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