The Scarlet Letter .. The Nature of the Evil .. Post #55

I finally decided to take this theme as my essay theme.
The Evil is associated with the darkness in this book. Even though darkness can have good aspects, for example romance, it does not do here. With darkness Chillingworth is connected, and so Satan is, too. It seems like evil in this society is a lot about revenge and not being able to forgive. When someone decides on revenging he gets totally 'eaten' by the darkness. It is just like this person is some kind of puppet, a slave, that is totally devoted to the evil. It is just like you sign into a book with your own blood and it keeps you alive as long as you have something to suck from. You give your soul to the devil. Just as Chillingworth is the darkness in this book he needs sunlight of other people. He needs their pain. Like it always has been, evil needs good things to survive, just like there has to be sunlight for having shadows, there has to be light to have darkness, and so there has to be good to get bad things.