Hester's real sin, which she admits in her first interview with Chillingsworth, was to marry the old man. Neither loved each other. Hawthorne appeared to hint that Hester married him because of social and economic necessity; he appeared to have married her because he though she would bring a little life into his exi

Hawthorne's predictions given through Hester proved to be true, man just had to be "ripe" enough to accept things for what they really were, and not for what they thought.

One should not violate the godliness of a pure heart. Hester was a radical woman in her time, more like a 20th century woman. She knew that true love was more important than a phony, love-less marriage. Hawthorne appeared to make Dimmesdale an incredibly weak man; he could not confess his sin to the people, until it had almost killed him: "I am a dying man. So let me [take] my [shame]." Chillingsworth was the "Black Man." His quest for knowledge turned him into a rational monster. After Arthur Dimmesdale becomes his object of obsession, he changes his name to emphasize his new, damned identity.

As a believing Pu

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