Alienation of Hester Prynne Have you ever heard the phrase Thou Shalt not commit adultery? Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale have committed adultery which is an extremly horrendous crime in the Puritan era.In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter Hester refuses to reveal Dimmesdale as the other adulterer, while going through society’s alienation and along with this has major changes to her life as a result of her choice Therefore this sin creates their daughter Pearl.. One reason for Hester’s alienation was that she refused to name Dimmesdale the father. Since she did not reveal his name, part of her punishment was to serve many months in prison, stand on the scaffold for 3 hours at a time, and wear a Scarlet letter on her chest as long as she was in Boston. When Hester and Pearl were released from prison and placed on the scaffold, It was said “Be not silent from any mistaken pity and tenderness for him; for, believe me, Hester, though he were to step down from a high place, and stand there beside thee, on thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so, than to hide a guilty heart through life” (Hawthorne). Hester was asked to reveal the name of person which she committed the sin with. Yet blinded by love, Hester chose to stay in the town and wear the scarlet letter instead of revealing the other adulterer. She faced the town only to protect and be close to the man she loved. It seemed as she was paying not only her own consequence, but paying Dimmesdale’s as well. She says so herself while standing on the scaffold "I might face his agony as well as mine!" (Hawthorne 64). Now she would become the "general symbol at which the preacher and moralists might point, and in which they might vivify and embody their images of woman's frailty and sinful passion" (Hawthorne 73). After the sin had been revealed, Hester never again felt she was accepted by society. It seemed to ...