In Hawthorne's book The Scarlet Letter there are many types of sins committed, some by the preachers, and some by the townspeople, but the highlighted sin was the one committed by Hester Prynne and that sin was adultery. The preacher Reverend Master Auther Dimmesdale’s sins along with adultery were the sin of self-harming “His inward trouble drove him to practices more in accordance with the old, corrupted faith of Rome...” (Hawthorne 141). In the Scarlet Letter Hawthorne talks about how Dimmesdale would whip himself with a bloody scourge (the roman whip the kind that was used on Jesus right before he was put on the cross) at night and by day he would preach against the very sins he committed himself, therefore he also committed the sin of
