e characters, Hawthorne’s novel illustrates how one sin can escalate to encompass one’s self so that the true humans behind the sin are lost. This is what makes Hawthorne’s novel not only a story of love vs. hate, sin vs. purity, good vs. evil, but all of these combined to make a strikingly historical tragedy as well. The Scarlet Letter is one of the few books that will be timeless because it deals with alienation, sin, punishment, and guilt; emotions that will continue to be felt by every generation to come....
