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Charles Haddon Spurgeon, a seventeenth century Baptist preacher, commented that, "Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of." Sin is rebellion, the uprising of the will against rightful authority and the transgression of one’s morality against society. An individual either faces their actions or runs away from them as evil emerges when they conceal their sins. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne presents his dissent towards the strict theocracy of the Puritan society. The Puritans rigid moral code plays a heavy role on the people’s lives. The society exists as inherently theocratic; the ideas of religion and law remain synonymous. The strict consequences a sinner faces destroys the concept of sympathy. The three main characters of the novel have in common the commission of a sin. As the story progresses, Hawthorne evidently portrays the developing arrogance in Roger Chillingworth's vengeance against Arthur Dimmesdale. Although his sin remains not as prevalent as Hester or Dimmesdale’s sins, Chillingworth grows to become an allegorical representation of evil and corruption, epitomizing him as the worst sinner.