The Evil Characters in The Scarlet Letter

"Red Letter" is a book of sins and sins that revealed Roger Chillingworth and Hostess Hibbins purely evil character. Chillingworth and Hibin may look like a nice person, but they really symbolize evil. Roger Chillingworth, a husband of Hester Purine, was shunned by pledging adultery with the admired minister of the town across the colony of Boston, Massachusetts. The settlers believed that Chillingworth was a kind doctor sent back to God by a person like a minister praised from the town Arthur Din Mezdale to restore health.

In the novel "Red Letter" written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the important person is Hester Prynne and he must put the letter "A" on the clothes of each clothes. "Look, really there is a woman with a red letter, so let's throw her mud to death" (Hawthorne, Chapter 2). The red letter is a clear sign of her sin. So everyone can judge by looking at Hester. If no one leaves her, she can not go anywhere. This red letter makes Hester an outsider of her own community.

"Red Letter" reveals moral and social values ​​related to social discrimination against women through alienation of Hester Prynne, the main character of "Red Letter". In the "red letter", Hester was punished for an affair relationship with Pastor Din Mesdale, and a child named Pearl was born. For adultery, the social authority of Puritan she lived was accused of wearing a red letter on her chest. However, in fact, Hester has life imprisonment, and more content is displayed in alienation with ....