Puritan Children were forced to sit straight for more than four hours at a time and intensely listen during church services. If a towns person committed a sin, they face the public and force humiliation upon themselfs as punishment. The harsh rules are apt to bring on sins in the novel The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The sin of adultery affects Hester Prynne, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, as well as the Physician Roger Chillingsworth.
After Hester was convicted of adultery, she is forced to wear the scarlet letter ‘A’ upon her breast for everyone to see. This sin affects Hester, by mostly dealing with her emotions;
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