Who Is The Most Guilty In The Scarlet Letter

A man without purpose is a man without life, which in this story is what happens to Roger Chillingworth. The townspeople were very judgmental people with very little compassion. Pearl is the “sin child” who is the daughter of Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne. Hester is the wife of Chillingworth, who has a child while he is gone, and later she wants to leave with Dimmesdale to live somewhere else, because she loves him. Dimmesdale is the great minister of Salem, Massachusetts and has committed a very large sin himself and has convicted other people of the same crime, making him a hypocrite.
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
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