Part one of term paper
In the novel “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne focuses on Hester Prynne’s sin. Hester Prynne commits adultery with Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and bares a child named Pearl. Hester is judged guilty by the townspeople and is forced to wear a letter A on her chest. She does not tell the town that Dimmesdale is the ...

Part two of term paper
... does not feel that she has sinned against God. Partly this is so because God has never been a real presence in her life. Hester believes that the sin wasn’t against God, because he has given her “a lovely child”. Hester has violated no law of her own nature. Her relationship with Dimmesdale, consequently, has been the almost inescapable result of her own nature, not a violation of it. Her sin has only affected the way that people look at Hester. Hester feels that the only sin that she ...