Francisco 1 TRUNKS Scarlet Letter Essay October 2001 Consequences Resulting from Decisions With every decision or action that is made, comes an outcome. One’s principles can have an impact on how the person lives his or her life. As Hester Prynne did, one can choose to follow principles that are true and bear their consequences. Another choice is to hold back principles because of the consequences involved, such as Arthur Dimmesdale. Lastly, one could do as …showed first 75 words of 1295 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1295 total…choose to repress the principles to avoid facing their consequences. Then again, following this choice can lead to internal conflicts such as Dimmesdale’s. The worst choice would be to pay not attention to principles to insure something such as revenge. It was shown that nothing really positive came out of following this path. No matter what a person decides to do, the direction they chose to head in has some sort of consequences involved.