Hawthorne first establishes the sensitive theme of sin within the beginning scenes of The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne employs Hester’s public humiliation to illustrate her sin. Hawthorne describes Hester as wearing the luminous and scarlet letter “A”, and how the letter takes “her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself” (Hawthorne
Hawthorne first establishes the sensitive theme of sin within the beginning scenes of The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne employs Hester’s public humiliation to illustrate her sin. Hawthorne describes Hester as wearing the luminous and scarlet letter “A”, and how the letter takes “her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself” (Hawthorne