In Puritanical views, Hester Prynne, a married woman, committed a crime of adultery. In the beginning, on the scaffold scene when Hester is judged in front of all society; she was being separated from humanity and placed into isolation. As the woman in front of the prison door stated:

“Goodwives,” said a hard-featured of fifty, “I’ll tell ye a piece of my mind. It would be greatly for the church-members in good repute, should have the handling of such malefactresses as this Hester Prynne. What think ye, gossips? If the hussy stood up for judgment before us five, that are now here in a knot together, would she come off with such a sentence as the worshipful magistrates have awarded? Marry, I trow not!? (48).

After she finished her term in prison, Hester and h

In culmination, the letter ‘A’ greatly changed Hesters’ lifestyle from a flaming beauty to the waste of society.

During the novel, it is apparent that Chillingsworth goes through projection; the act of placing ones stress on someone other than themselves. He lives with Dimmesdale as his personal physician, but secretly kills Dimmesdale through his medicine, which is truly poison. As he told Hester when he went to the prison cell to meet her, he wants revenge of Dimmesdale:

Obviously, Chillingsworth contains a lot of hatred in his soul, which keeps him away from it. As a physician it is Chillingsworths’ profession to save people’s lives, instead he is working to take away someone’s life as an act of revenge. It is apparent that Chillingsworth is separated from his sole, because all the goodness in his heart has been sucked out by Hesters sudden affair with the minister.

“Tell me, mother!” said the child, seriously, coming up to Hester, and pressing herself close to her knees. “Thy Heavenly Father sent thee!” answered Hester Prynne… “He did not send me!” cried she, positively. “I have no Heavenly Father!” (90).

“Dost thou know me so little, Hester Prynne? Are my purposes wont to be so shallow? Even if I imagine a scheme of vengeance, what could I do better for my object than to let thee live, --than to give thee medicines against all hard and peril of life, --so that this burning

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