The main characters of the novel The Scarlett letter are Hester Prynne, Pearl, and Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmesdale. Pearl is the daughter of Hester, who committed adultery and cheated on her husband, Roger with another guy, who is Pearls dad. Back in the time where this book was based, the colonies were based mainly on religion, and not much government. So things we today would call "law breaking" was back then called sinning. If you sinned such as murder, adultery, disobeyed your parents etc., you would get arrested, and in some cases, such as Hesters, the death penalty. I think that the amount of religion they had back then was somewhat good, because they weren't being forced to believe the Bible and God and such, but they didn't
