The power of secrets and the force they carry with them, like a thousand flamming stalions storming through the night across the flat plains, under the thousands of stars which light their way towards thecastle of which they call their home land, with goals of killing puff the magic dragon

THE POWER OF SECRETS I think for my essay I am going tthe secrets to try to develope an idea around the secrets throughout the book. My thesis would be something like: "Secrets destroy a mans integrity, and therefor to protect a mans integrity they are forced to become a hypocrit in everyday matters, and there life styles"First I would deveople the idea around Dimsdale and his secret of being the father of perl. And how his secret makes him a hypocrite of his religious beliefs and his relgious practices, which so many adore. I would elude to the textual refrences on pages 283-284.Also I could talk about how his secret eats him up on the inside and eventully kills him along with his integrity, by looking at the section "Most of the spectators....more than a new-born inafant's"(519).Next I would talk about Chillingworth's secret of being the husband to Hester, and how because he covers up his true idenity of a sensible man he completely changes himself, showingly in "No man....may be the true"(433)and "i have thought....upon thy bosom?"(141). Mainly focusing on how him pretending to be a docotr is the oppostie of what his intentions are. Then I would start on Hester's secrets, her biggest of which being the idea of women being treated equally and how this is a hypocracy for her because outwardly she appears like she has taken on these ideas of shame and such but inwardly she has developed these ideas about society and how she has seperated herself from it, and how society needs to be reformed. pages 385-389 in addition to that i will refrence 325-327. Lastly i would talk about how perl is the only character who is not a hypocrit, and because of that she is the only one who lives a happy life in the end and that the idea of being true to one's self is the most important thing. I would look for examples in the flood of sunshine chapter, and the endding of the book along with Dismdales last words on pages 505-515