The Scarlet Letter One belief that people live by is that evil is the nature of mankind, yet there are others that feel man has good intentions but those intentions can be overrun by the devil. Nathaniel Hawthorne points out that the former is true of all people in the novel The Scarlet Letter. ... In the novel, Hester received a scarlet letter, "A," for her sins, which she had to wear upon her chest for the rest of her life in Boston. ... By chapter 14, Chillingworth's transformation seems to be complete, and Chillingworth becomes aware of what has happened. ...

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"He is the complete type of man of the world, the social ideal,--courteous, quiet, well informed, imperturbably. ... I--a man of thought, the bookworm of great libraries...men call me wise...I might have foreseen all this...I might have beheld the bale-fire of that scarlet letter blazing at the end of our path!" ...

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"He is the complete type of man of the world, the social ideal,--courteous, quiet, well informed, imperturbably. ... I--a man of thought, the bookworm of great libraries...men call me wise...I might have foreseen all this...I might have beheld the bale-fire of that scarlet letter blazing at the end of our path!" ...

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• Grade Level: High School