Can you give me some ideas about the Theme of "The Scarlet Letter"? please?

Question

It's by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I have one idea so far but I'm looking for other points of view as well

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Hester's A is attached to her outside clothing and thherfore a little artificial, manmade, and false.  But near the end when the preacher falls down dead in the street and they tear open his shirt, he has an A on his chest that appears to be burning its way out from the inside, a more real sign that he was an adulterer and unrepentant.

Answer 3

law v. nature...

individual v. society..

sin and redemption...

the heart v. the head...

the public and the private self...