Hester Prynne's tragedy becomes the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale's suffering and

depression, despite the letter "A" boldly present on her chest. Revered Dimmesdale's

affair with Hester Prynne continuously troubles his conscience; seeing that no other

person feels as guilty, the minister is the most tragic character in the novel. At the time

when this novel takes place, not only ministers, but ordinary people of the town took

religion very serious. With great displeasure, Hester Prynne takes her punishment of

being shunned from the people of her society, and by covering it up and secreting her

sin, Pearl's significant contribution to Hester's life acts as a cure to her misdeeds, while

no one to turn to, Dimmesdale's guilty conscience is buried within, eventually destroying

Hester Prynne's sin of adultery had a big impact on herself as well as the entire

community. All the people looked at her as worthless and dishonest. Her mistake had

shunned her from the society. She quoted: "I happened to place it on my breast. It

seemed to me, then that I experienced a sensation not altogether physical, yet almost so,

but in New England at this time of witchery, it spelled evil and had horror written all over

who had been in the shoes of Dimmesdale. She had once longed to be free of guilt and

; and as if the letter were not of red cloth, but red-hot iron." (31) At the

trifled itself! A mockery at which angles blushed and wept, while friends rejoiced, with

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Approximate Word count = 948
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)