scarlet letter
...ter sinned led to the townspeople looking down on Hester and Pearl, while Reverend Dimmesdale concealed his crime of passion making Hester's scarlet letter 'A' the central symbol of the novel. As the people of Boston scrutinized Hester and Pearl, their devotion to the Lord's word soon turned to hatred. "At the very least, they should have put the brand of a hot iron on Hester Prynne's forehead," were the thrashful words of an autumnal matron in a throng of people. Under the appellation of Roger Chillingsworth, Hester's former husband constantly battered her. These actions filled him full of vengeance soon making him into a fiend. From the people treating Hester bad, and the unruly acts of Roger Chillingsworth, it is clearly shown that one sin can lead to many others. Another example of sin erupting into more evils is Reverend Dimmesdale's camouflage act with his duality in the adulterous parody. Chillingsworth treated the minister even more uncivilized than he treated Hester; this earned him the title of the leech. As a physician, he was well respected, but his fiendish acts of hatred towards the minister turned him into a black devil. Seven years after Hester served her persecution on the scaffold with young Pearl, Reverend Dimmesdale served his punishment. Not only did the sin of...