Compare And Contrast Chillingworth And Hester Prynne

Hester Prynne and Roger Chillingworth were initially husband and wife that had planned to move to Boston and he was to send Hester ahead of him and then he was to follow. He went missing before he could reach Boston and was later assumed dead. Hester, feeling lonely, sought comfort in Reverend Dimmesdale. They, for one night, have sexual intercourse and she becomes pregnant with Pearl. Hester was put on trial and was found guilty of adultery. The respected punishment in their puritan society was for people who commit such a sinful sin is to be executed. Instead she was sentenced to prison time and her own scarlet letter. She was to wear an “A” for adultery for the rest of her life, which was sown on the chest of her clothing and stand on a