The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a story of two lovers who are in search of redeeming themselves by God and how society has them in confinement where they cannot wiggle or stretch for a breath of freedom. Each persuading idea for one of the two being the Protagonist develops; in which as the story goes into great detail of how passion for love began in a colony of puritan rule and how they both fell into struggle, but found happiness in between to make a balance of hope. The protagonist is assured to be Hester Prynne because of how she tries to atone for her sin, how Nature does not approve of her hiding her true self, and her title with the vivid red letter A on her chest. While that is true Dimmesdale can still be argued to be