As detailed in stories, tales, and fables throughout history, humanity has struggled with temptation and sin since the beginning of time . In Christianity, this struggle is characterized as the fallout from original sin and man's fall from grace in the Garden of Eden. In his distinguished historical romance novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses this biblical basis to articulate his beliefs about sin and redemption. Hawthorne propagates many of his beliefs throughout the novel in the experiences and scandalous affairs of two of his protagonists, Hester Prynne and the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, and in their conflicting emotions toward the religious values ​​of their Puritan community and their individual feelings of repentance and acceptance. Through the contrast between Puritan beliefs, according to which redemption is achieved only through the suppression of passions due to the fallen nature of man, and Hawthorne's beliefs, The Scarlet Letter uses the adulterous sin of Hester and Dimmesdale to affirm the belief of Hawthorne that only the acceptance of man's life and tendency to sin can generate personal growth and salvation. To understand Hawthorne's intention for The Scarlet Letter requires a Christian understanding of original sin and the biblical story of Adam and Eve's fall from grace. In the book of Genesis, God gave Adam and Eve the command that they were "free to eat of all the trees of the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." (2:16). However, Eve was tempted and fell from God's grace by plucking from the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil," which resulted in her and Adam's expulsion from the Garden, shame, and a subsequent, lifelong disposition to choose evil. The most important consequence... in the middle of the paper... the writing of me reveals his intention in The Scarlet Letter that, although humanity will always continue to struggle with its intrinsic disposition to choose evil over good, Salvation is possible for all sinners if there is recognition and acceptance of the fallen nature of humanity. Works Cited The Catholic Youth Bible: New American Bible Revised Edition. Winowa: Saint Mary's Press, 2005. Print.Londhe, Sachin. “Sin, Guilt, and Regeneration in the Scarlet Letter.” Research Review I.IV (2012): 49-53. Database of academic journals. Network. May 22, 2014. Giovane, RV. “Individual and community in the Scarlet Letter.” The Imaginative Conservative II (2013): The Imaginative Conservative. Network. May 24, 2014.Thompson, Lehtie Chalise. “A Moral Desert: The Scarlet Letter of Nathaniel Hawthorne.” Boise State University Graduate College thesis, 2011. Web. May 22 2014.