The Scarlet Letter, a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, transpires to become a tale of remorse and intrigue, light and dark, and frailty and sorrow. Its records the plight of a lowly woman, Hester Prynne, and how she discovers strength and courage in the midst of a heretical and socially repressed Puritanical society and emerges as a heroine ahead of her time through her own sin. This novel also recounts the life of one Arthur Dimmesdale, who keeps hidden sin that destroys him through the inside out and becomes ensnared to one who wishes to destroy him. The novel takes a deep plunge into the realm of passion and convention, and in the process reveals much about sin and the results of it. Some examples of this are Hester, and how she bore Pearl, gained the accompaniment of a scarlet letter, and had a change of physical appearance; other...