Throughout time, the human race has fought an on-going battle of lies and guilt from internal forces that divides the heart from the brain. In a community, especially one of high religious expectations, people suffer the warfare of every challenging consequence conceivable in order to alleviate the tensions of resurrection caused by wrongdoing. Everyone is susceptible to sin, but how each person deals with the blackness and filth of their sanctity is nothing less than …showed first 75 words of 1514 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1514 total…those sins. In the revealing words of Hester Prynne, “In all things else, I have striven to be true! Truth was the one virtue which I might have held, and did hold fast, through all extremity…A lie is never good, even though death threaten on the other side!”(202). With confession comes an eased conscience along with public shame, and without confession comes praise of holiness along with a weakened heart of lies and guilt.