CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
4.1 Conclusion
Soon after reading and analyzing the novel “The Scarlet Letter”, the writer encourages herself to make a conclusion. He focuses his conclusion just on the
psychological problems which operate in the main characters minds. The writer is very interested in as much in the sin as in the effects of the sin. The effects are
mainly psychological in the characters. Both of the main characters, Hester and Dimmesdale, get a mental torture
which brings them into severe mental agony. Through the psychology, anxiety and guilty-feeling play a dominant role to affect their characters. Even Hester does
not feel that what she has done is the sinful deed and the anxiety always haunts her life. Coming back into the world of freedom from prison, she finds herself
difficult to make her existence easily. The scarlet letter on her bossom seems like a danger hanging over her. It is the product of her sin which causes the changes of
her life of which it is peaceful before it becomes full of anxiety. The working of Dimmesdalee mind remains no much different from Hester. The feeling of guilty
has dominated his mind after the sin takes place. He as a minister, should present his figure as “a miracle of hollines” toward the society. But he longs to speak the
truth of himself which is actually sinful. Roger Chillingworth is the wrong husband who wreaks terrible vengeance
upon the guilty mini8ter, Arthur Dimmesdale. Roger Chillingworth was at one time a good and upright man but a great change conies over him when he makes
up his mind to avange himself upon the prie8t who steals up his mind to avange
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himself upon the priest who steals the love of his wife. From a man, from a human instincs,.heurns to a varitable frjen.. The desire of revenge,this case, has played a
great role in affecting his mind. Pearl is a product of an adulterous union. Pearl is also a source of as much
torment to her mother as happiness. She behaves so much different from other infants. She lives in abnormal way. She breaks law and discipline when she is
adopted to the society. Her wildness, her defiant moods and the flightiness of her temper are a cause of perpetual concern to her mother. A most unusual picture of
a child remains for the reader an unreal and dream—like figure. Finally the portrayals of the characters in the novel are convincingly
drawn and they give the readers the impression that they have actually known them in a real life which becomes the subject to psychological analysis.
4.2 Suggestion
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