Throughout their life people commit sins, which burden them in many ways. A literary example that has to do with sin and inner conflicts is The Scarlet Letter. The author of The Scarlet Letter is Nathaniel Hawthorne is which based on a woman named Hester Prynne, who in the 1640's, came to America and lived in Boston for religious freedom. When Hester come to America, her husband Roger Chillingworth wasn't able to come at the same time as her. He was shipwrecked at sea, and captured by Indians and had to stay with them for a year. When he finally gets to the Boston colony, he sees his wife Hester up on the scaffold being punished for a crime she has committed. At this point, he doesn't know what she has done, so he asks around and finds out, but he never tells anyone who he really is...