The Scarlet Letter shows throughout the entire book both sin and evil. The people that showed the most sin and/or evil throughout the book were Chillingworth, Dimmesdale, Hester, and Pearl. All of these people have done something evil or have committed some sort of sin that everyone knows about. Chillingworth was the one that demonstrated the most evil. On the other hand Pearl, Hester, and Dimmesdale were the sinners.
Roger Chillingworth came to Boston in disguised as a doctor. He changed his name to Chillingworth so that no one would know who he was. He found out about the sin his wife Hester committed through the towns people. In which case he decided to visit her in jail. At the jail he asked Hester to tell who the father of Pearl was but she refused. “Between thee and me, the scale hangs fairly balanced. But, Hester, the man lives who has wronged us both! Who is he?”(75). After trying to convince Hester to tell who the father of Pearl was he failed, he then asked her for a favor not to tell anyone who he was the father and she agreed. From that moment on Chillingworth was out to seek revenge against the father of Pearl. “Thou wilt not reveal his name? Not the less he is mine..”(76) When he went out into the town as the
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Pearl grew up to be a wonderful young women who was said to be married. Having to live the guilt in his heart was tearing him to pieces. She was thought of by the towns people as evil, because she was born into sin. He did bodily harm to himself all the time, he even went as far as to carving the letter A into his chest. The governor thought that Pearl should not be living with Hester, but when they thought it over they came to the conclusion that she was also a part of Hester’s punishment. Because of the sin her mother committed she was kept away from the other children, but she managed to be happy alone with her mother. Pearl was a very bright and intelligent young girl. Dimmesdale was the father of Hester’s baby Pearl. Madam Hester would have winced at that, I warrant me. Although at some point in time many people are know for some sort of sin or evil they can always be forgiven. She had been to jail for her crime, and was still taunted by the community. And then he found out that Dimmesdale was Pearl’s father, this is exactly what he had been waiting for to punish the man that had been with his wife. To be made an example of, and show the others what could happen to them if they were to commit adultery.
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