Hypocrites and Their Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy tends to show up a lot throughout the book, with almost every character showing it. Pearl is the only character in “The Scarlet Letter” who isn’t a hypocrite.  For my essay I want to show that Chilingsworth, Dimsdale and Hester are all hypocrites and that is the reason their life's don't have a happy ending.

Hester is a hypocrite because those who she "loves" she loves in a hypocritical way and she hurts everyone by keeping so many secrets. Dimsdale is a hypocrite because he is such a powerful man and yet he is too weak to own up to what he has done.Chilingsworth is a hypocrite because he is supposedly Dimsdale's doctor and he is supposed to help him, but instead he is torturing him.