Hester is forced to stand on the scaffold with everyone in town ridiculing her until she confesses who her partner was in the sin, but instead she stands there for three hours, when she was allowed to come down. Her subjection for the Puritan onlookers was excoriating to bear, and Hester holds!
             the child to her heart, a symbolic comparison between the child and the scarlet letter, implying that they are truly both intertwined (Chuck). The Puritans, one of the most devoted groups of bible scholars, forget one of Jesus' most famous of quotes, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her" (Marcus). The women forget to look inside themselves before they cast their opinions upon Hester. It
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