In "The Scarlet Letter", a tale of deception, hypocrisy and revenge, Nathaniel Hawthorne reveals some of the minor flaws
of human nature as well as a very dark and vile side of it. The
paper analyzes the characters of three protagonists in the novel who
commit sins: Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth. The paper shows that whereas two of these characters commit their sins as an innocent mistake, only one deliberately and continually transgresses in an abominable endeavor for self-gratification.