Dimmesdale: The Bearer of the Scarlet letter Who should bear the stigma of sin? ... Hester cannot hide the consequences of her mistake, so she is exposed to public judgment and forced to wear the scarlet letter. ... The townspeople, who represent the Puritan society, play a decisive role as the second antagonist in the story. ... If we can a parallel between the townspeople and the Puritan society as a whole, we can also draw a parallel between that Puritan society and our society today. ... In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter Hester P...

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