Roger Chillingworth is the most sinful person in this story, due to all of his actions that are to get back at his wife Hester Prynne. The reasoning behind …show more content…
These sins that have been committed are first the fact that she lets her husband Chillingworth stay behind to learn the Indian ways of medicine, when she needed him in colonizing a new part of the land with new people. Another thing that she is doing that makes her much more of a guilty character is when while her husband, Chillingworth, is gone, she aches for a man's presence in her life, so with thinking her husband is dead, as he has been gone for a long time, she sleeps with another man even though she knows it is wrong. The last thing that makes her guilty is the fact that she marries a man who is obviously older than she. But what makes things better for her is the fact that she raises the child all on her own and is very strong and proud of Pearl. She also serves her time and is allowed to take off her scarlet A, but does not, because it showed who she is. These are the reasons why Hester Prynne is a very guilty character in the book, which is based off of her cheating on Chillingworth and having a baby out of