Hester Prynne was a married woman who had an affair with the resident minister. She was found out and prosecuted. She then was made to stand on the scaffold. Her punishment was to wear a letter “A” on her person every waking moment. Hawthorne describes Prynne as having elegance and poise even in the face of ridicule and hate. He regards her with admiration. He sees a situation in which Hester is seemingly unaffected by her repercussion, the dirty looks of the crowd or their hateful, muffle

All in all, Hawthorne's portrayal (point of view), of Hester’s crime, his skill with conflict and tone express the impact of Hester’s crime on herself, her family and the townspeople. Her reputation as a deviant had marked her for life and made the Puritans worry about themselves, morality and their own social values. Hawthorne’s use of these scholarly elements gives him more clarity in the effects of one person’s actions on the community as a whole. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, provided proof that one miscreant’s sin or wrongdoing can have a deep affect on the morality and faith of a close-knit religious community.

The Scarlet Letter was a novel filled with antagonism. Main conflicts include man versus man, man versus self, and man versus society. The initial man versus man conflict was between Arthur Chillingworth and Reverend Dimmesdale. It had turned out that Chillingworth was Hester’s former husband. He was a prominent figure in the society and had told Hester, in essence, to keep quiet about their relationship. He went on pretending to be Dimmesdale’s friend. He plotted and schemed a way to fix his revenge, because he was hateful and jealous. Chillingworth wanted to ruin Dimmesdale’s image in front of the whole town and tell them that he was an adulterer also. The next, man versus self, conflict arose inside of the Revered Dimmesdale. He was torn between the option of keeping quiet and keeping his position and taking care of his family. He held guilt that ripped him apart, because he was letting Hester take all the blame for their sin. Hawthorne described a doleful Dimmesdale who could be seen w

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