Part 1 of Essay
Hawthorne's novel describes the life of an adulteress, Hester Prynne, who is shunned by her judgmental community. She gave birth to her daughter Pearl out of wedlock, while her “partner of iniquity,”(Hawthorne 59) a minister named Arthur Dimmesdale, never revealed his “black secret” of their affair. ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... black secret inside himself. On the other hand, Hester Prynne could not hide the truth because Pearl and the scarlet letter “A” were open confessions of her sin. Hester had committed adultery and she felt that “God, as a direct consequence of the sin, had given her a child, whose place was on that same dishonored bosom.”(82) Pearl was sent from God as a reminder to Hester and the Puritan community of her sin each and every day. However, Hester chose not to tell who Pearl's father was. &# ....