Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is story about Hester Prynne, a woman who commits a sin of adultery. This story evolved in a Puritan settlement. Apart from Hester the other characters around which the story revolves are Roger Chillingworth, Arthur Dimmesdale and Pearl. Chillingworth is Hester’s husband who is a scholar and much older than Hester. Dimmesdale is a young and eloquent minister whom Hester is involved in committing adultery. Pearl is the illegitimate child of Hester and Dimmesdale. Hester does not reveal her lover's identity, and the scarlet letter, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy.

The term sympathy has been used in a special sense in the Scarlet letter, not in the sense we use in our daily lives. Chillingworth says “But, as for me

Moreover, the author has used sympathy in a new sense when describing Hester’s intimations. He says “In all her miserable experience, there was nothing else so awful and so loathsome as this sense. It perplexed as well as shocked her, by he irreverent inopportuneness of the occasions that brought into vivid action. Sometimes the red infamy upon her breast would give a sympathetic throb, as she passed near a venerable Minster or magistrate, the model of piety and justice to whom the age of antique reverence looked up, as to a mortal man in fellowship with angels.” In these sentences the author says that Hester had a sense that enabled her to trace adulterers and sinners, even though if they were ministers or magistrates. By sympathetic throb the author means Hester’s special sense.

In conclusion the author has used the term sympathy in many differ

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