Well-Being - The Scarlett Letter

Competing internal and external demands on the individual often are in conflict with respect to personal well-being. Our well-being might be greatly increased if we were free to secure our futures by robbing a bank, but there are external demands that prevent us from doing so. This is a good thing because it maintains social order and offers equal protection to all individuals, but it can be harmful where personal well-being is concerned. On a less legal example, perhaps no work of literature shows the impact of the relationship between internal and external demands on well-being than Nathaniel Hawthorne's story of the doomed love affair between the Puritan preacher Arthur Dimmesdale and the married mother Hes

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