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Sin In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

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In the novel The Scarlet Letter we are taken to a much stricter time in life. Where laughing and dancing were considered to be out of norm. The year is 1642 and we are introduced to a young woman who has been convicted for adultery. The author fills the book with many characters, each character committing their own sin. As a reader we are challenged to base an opinion on each character based on the sin they have done. After thoroughly reading the book and forming my own opinion on this book I have decided that Chillingsworth, the old doctor, committed a sin much greater than any of the other characters in The Scarlet Letter. Strong evidence led me to make this opinion. Many times in the frame of the work Chillingsworth is said to be hostile,
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