The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the most famous American authors in all of American literary history. The novel is considered one of the greatest novels in American literary history. In the sotry, Hester, the main character of the novel, is condemned to wear the scarlet letter "A" on her breast as a permanent sign of her sin. The author describes the torment suffered by Hester and her adulterous partner, the minister Arthur Dimmesdale, in recent years. The story begins at the end of Hester's imprisonment after her affair and for many years until her final acceptance of her place in the community as the bearer of the scarlet letter, a symbol of shame. Throughout the story, the letter "A" embodied on Hester's chest is given different meanings and symbols. At the beginning of the novel, the letter "A" on Hester's chest is seen as a label of sin, the sin of adultery, as shown by Nina Baym. from his themes in The Scarlet Letter “When asked to wear a red A, the Puritans assumed it had a fixed meaning: adultery. » (Nina Baym). As for the punishment for her sin, the Puritan society rejected it and she was not treated as a normal person afterwards, but the Puritan society considered her a symbol of shame, sin and guilty . Puritan society punished her by making her stand on the scaffold for three hours while holding her child: “She pressed the child so violently to her breast that he cried out; she looked down at the scarlet letter and even touched it with her finger, to make sure that the child and the shame were real. » (p. 50). But later the actual meaning of the letter is changed. Later in the story, the letter is viewed differently by Puritan society. The ...... middle of paper ...... they saw the letter "A". on the chest of Arthur Dimmesdale "Most of the spectators testified to having seen, on the breast of the unfortunate minister, a scarlet letter - the very semblance of that worn by Hester Prynne - impressed in the flesh." (p. 201), and some have suggested an idea that Roger Chillingworth, the one who made this mysterious letter appear on Dimmesdale's chest. “Others claimed that the stigma was not produced until a long time later, when old Roger Chillingworth, being a powerful necromancer, caused it to appear, through the medium of magic and poisonous drugs. but strangely there was a group of people who testified that they saw nothing on his chest, "who were spectators of the whole scene, and declared that they never took their eyes off the Rev. Mr. Dimmesdale, denying that there was any mark. on his chest. »(p.211).