How Does Hester Prynne Change Throughout The Scarlet Letter

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, 1 John 1:9”. This tells us that we who believe in confessing our sins must understand that every sin needs to be recognized and heard. We can see that in the novel Hetser, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth have all sinned and been forgiven. Hester’s sin changes throughout the novel because, in the beginning, this was a punishment that affected her day-to-day life. We then see at the very end she finally takes off The Scarlet Letter A because she is finally able to let go of her sin of adultery. After everything she went through in the novel and with the people, she waited for their acceptance. That’s when the people changed their perspective on Hester and the Scarlet Letter.

Such helpfulness was found in her, so much power to do, and power to sympathize, that many people refused to interpret the Scarlet A by its original signification. They said it meant Able. So strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman's strength. On page 185” This changes Hester’s sin because she learned to not sin anymore and the people started to accept her for who she was when they all said the Letter means able instead of adultery. She doesn’t let others’ words define her or let her mistakes define who she truly is because only she knows who she truly is. As we read the novel, it wasn't just Hetser who committed adultery, but it was also Dimmesdale too. However, Hester only committed her sin by committing adultery because she had a child, and that was something she couldn’t hide. Therefore, Dimmesdale didn’t confess his sin by committing adultery because he knew what he did was wrong and completely unacceptable. So he could not confess his sin because he had a fear of not being accepted into his society and also he was scared God wouldn’t accept his apology. “You wrong yourself in this,” Hetser said, gently. “You have deeply and solely repented. Your sin is left behind you, in the days long

He thought that’s what he should do himself, knowing that he did something so wrong that he can’t take back what he did other than moving forward from it and putting it behind you. We are forgiven, no matter what. Yes, we may feel bad even after we have been forgiven, but we can not keep dreading that one thing. Instead, we should just take it as a learning experience, not to do it again and continue with our lives. Out of all the people who have sinned, Chillingworth is the most serious sin. Chillingworth allows his mind and thoughts to become overpowering for himself by his desire for revenge. “He wants to seek revenge on the person who tormented and committed adultery with Hester. In a word, old Roger Chillingworth was striking evidence of man’s faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil’s office on page 196”. He was a depressed person who had effected so much transformation by dedicating himself for a long time to being constant of a full heart of torture, depriving all his enjoyment, and adding fuel to those fiery tortures which he sees as gloated