The right and wrong of our life are determined by the moral rules of our cruel society. The author, Nathanel Hawthorne expresses this idea in one of his masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter. Born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts; he lived with his widowed mother and two younger sisters, Maria Louisa and Elizabeth. He had the must pleasant and normal boyhood, but for the next 12 year he was absorbed by unhappiness and self-doubt as he tries to master the skill of writing. In 1837 he published Twice-Told Tales and obtained a steady income. Then he published The Scarlet Letter, and it brought him immediate recognition. The Scarlet Letter is a book that criticized the Puritan society of the era. The story told is about a woman named Hester Prynne who committed adultery with Arthur Dimmesdale in an unforgiving place. Hester was force by the church to wear the letter 'A' on her for the rest of her life as a reminder to the town-people of her immoral act. Her husband, Roger Chillingworth discovered that she had committed the immoral act with Dimmesdale. Then he sets himself ready for revenge because of the constant fighting between Dimmesdale and Chillingworth; they both eventually died. After their death Hester took her daughter, Pearl back to English. Hawthorne depicts the triumph of one women's strength over the powerful Puritan church, a revengeful husband, and her personal feeling of guilt and remorse. Overcoming these obstacles was not a sudden. It took her seven years to first overcome her personal feeling, then the Puritan church and eventually her husband.
             Hester's appreciation of her scarlet letter and sense of pride helped her overcome her personal feeling. Her hard work and effort made her scarlet letter stand for another meaning. She willingly helped other and at the same time she helped herself by gaining herself more respect. "Such helpfulness was found in her-so much power to do an...