Nathaniel Hawthorne uses Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth to portray that everyone may sin, but every sinner has the chance for redemption. The book in which he portrays this is entitled The Scarlet Letter, A book set in New England in the 1600s, about the aforementioned characters, their sins, and their redemption or lack thereof.
Hester Prynne is the book's protagonist. Her sin is committing adultery with Dimmesdale. She becomes impregnated by this act and so is forced by the Puritans to wear a scarlet "A" on her chest, standing for "adulteress." …
