The Scarlet Letter's Worst Sinner

<Tab/>In puritan New England all sins were punished in different ways, some worse than others. In The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne is an adulterer, Reverend Dimmesdale is another adulterer, and Roger Chilingworth is a man who cares only about punishing the man who slept with his wife. These are the sins they commit and they are each punished but it different ways. <Tab/&…

…Tab/>Chilingworth's sin was worse than Hester's and Dimmesdale's because he caused others to suffer greatly. Not being able to control his anger is what caused him to sin. If he could have moved on instead of seeking revenge it would have made everybody's lives much easier. His thirst for revenge led him and others that he drug along to their death. Works cited Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Scarlet Letter. New York: Diver Publications, Inc, 1994