BIblical allusions
- Satan plays an active role throughout the Scarlet Letter especially with Chillingworth.
- Chillingworth is portrayed as the Devil because he deceives people and tries to convince them (Dimmesdale) to tell him all their dirty little secrets.
- Hester and Dimmesdale are portrayed as Adam and Eve; They sin and experience expulsion and suffering. Hester felt more expulsion than Dimmesdale while he felt more suffering of the soul than Hester.
- There's an allusion of Daniel and the Dream teller when Chillingworth asks a man who the father of the child with Hester the man said that This is a riddle that no one knows hopefully, a Daniel will come and clear up the mystery.
- Ann Hutchinson is a woman who held bible studies in her home going against what the ministers said. She, like Hester, was banished from her colony because she didn't conform to the Puritan ways.
- When Dimmesdale refers to himself as Enoch, he's saying that he isn't the man they think he is.