Who Is To Blame In The Scarlet Letter

Have you ever thought how blaming someone could cause problems for you and others? In The Scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne was blamed for being an adulteress and even took the blame for Dimmesdale, who didn’t say anything for seven years, which made him feel guilty about not revealing to truth. Many readers believe blame doesn’t affect anyone. Blame and guilt affected Dimmesdale’s life throughout the book, and you see countless amounts of blaming during the presidential debate. In my life I have blamed people for my mistakes and regretted it. In The Scarlet letter, Dimmesdale was blaming himself and feet guilty for keeping his secret and making Hester take all the blame for both their sins. The text states “In Mr. Dimmesdale’s secret closet, under lock and key, there was a bloody scourge… laughing bitterly at himself the while, and smiting so much the more pitilessly, because of that bitter laugh. It was his custom, too, as it has been that of many other pious Puritans, to fast…” (Hawthorne 141). This explains how Dimmesdale is punishing himself because he felt guilty about not revealing his secret while Hester was on the scaffold. This leads to various tragic punishments, but the blame got the best of Dimmesdale. It consequently resulted him in speaking

The presidential debate consists of the candidates blaming each other left and right. But the issue that came up was taxes, and Trump stated, “So now after years of failure she complains about how I’ve used tax laws of this country to my benefit. Then I ask a simple question: Why didn’t she ever try to change those laws so I couldn’t use them?” (Jacobs). This explains how Donald Trump blames Hillary Clinton for crating loophole in the tax laws. These candidates blame each other, but it affects Trump more than anyone else considering he had no proof to back it up, and causes greater problems for