In The Scarlet Letter, Hester is delt with a punishment of being forced to wear an “A” across her chest. The letter across her chest was a sign in puritan society to show the public that she had committed a sin explained in the book The Scarlet Letter “Thus she will be a living sermon against sin”. The “A” on her chest made Hester a real living sermon, the “A” was known throughout the puritan society. The letter’s intended effect was to leave the sinner with a mind full of guilt thus changing Hester’s life forever, the reader is briefed on what had happened to Hester in Nathaniel’s book “Man had marked this women’s sin by a scarlet letter, which had such potent and disastourus efficacy that no human sympathy could reach h

Roger Chillingsworth a twisted and deformed, physically is Hester’s husband from England, the reader is told that Chillingsworth was not the best husband often leaving Hester to herself. Chillingsworth came to the puritan society as what Hawthorne calls a “leech” or in modern terms a doctor. As the book progresses Chillingsworth becomes to evil and guilt he says himself he is no longer able to view himself “…A mortal man, with once a human heart, has become a fiend for his especial torment! The unfortunate physician, while uttering these words, lifted his hands with a look of horror, as if he had beheld some frightful shape, which he could not recognize, usurping the place of his own image in a glass….. He had never before viewed himself as he did now”. (pg. 164) Chillingsworth now looks back at himself unable to recognize what he once was although the same person physically metally he has become pure evil and is in a constant battle with himself between what is right and what is �

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