Hester sin of adultery was the focus of this novel. With out her husband, whom she the thought died, she committed adultery. Refusing to give up his name as Pearl’s father, wanting her to “never know [her] earthly one,” only her “heavenly Father“ show her determination to stay faithful and loyal to Dimmesdale (Hawthorne 63). A woman full of motherly love that she showers on her daughter, her love and concerns for her product makes her wonder if her offspring abnormal. She worries about her lack of self-control and her shunning playmates. Her appeal to the Governor and to her ex-lover that “God gave [her] the child” for her “happiness” and her “torture,” in which for them to allow her to keep the elf child, shows the importance of the daughter in her life (104). As

Committing adultery with Hester was Dimmesdale sin, it more and internal rather than external. His own weakness and lack of courage, he fails to confess and suffers constantly. He continually places his hand over his heart, covering the scarlet letter that permanently engraved there. To punish himself for his sin, he would use a “scourge” on himself “laughing bitterly” as he would do so (135). Fast, “not the purify [of his] body,” but to “rigorously… until his knees” would give out. He would keep “vigils” “night after night“, torturing himself for the sin he committed. He never confesses but mildly attempted to do so several times. When he gathers strength to hint that he a sinner, he does it so indirectly that his confession considered a sign of his humility, his congregation with “deep awe and wonder” still loves and praises him more (241). The more the people honor him, the more his guilt grows. The hypocrite retaining his religious image in public and lead a guilt-ridden life of self-punishment in private that ruined his health and causes his physical deterioration.

for this child with her honor; therefore, the name has importance, meaning valuable but costly, for she Hester's “only treasure”(82). As the living scarlet letter and a constant reminder of her parents’ sin, She displays signs of wildness, rebellion, and freedom. She happiest out in nature, where her carefree heart seems to communicate with the forces that surround her, Her isolation from the world of humans only strengthens her union with Nature. The sad, gloomy, and lonely lives of her parents, especially of Hester, deeply affects Pearl. She lives a secluded life without mingling with other children. Though she leads a friendless life, she is secure in her mother's love. Never really seen her mother without the “A”, frighten to see her without it, when she and her father were in the woods. She, however, wonders about her father and seems to understand that Dimmesdale somehow related to her. She aware of him because he refuses sees her in public, because “in the dark night-time he calls [them] to him, but in the sunny day he knows [them] not; nor must [they] know him”(216).

Pearl never committed any sin, she only the product of that indulgence. Her mother paid

Chillingworth premeditate his sin of revenge. He came back into He

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