How does the character Hester Prynne triumph over evil? The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

's triumph
over evil comes not in the wearing of the scarlet letter that fails to do "its
office," but in her prevailing over the stigma of the letter and the evil adversary , who
violates the secrets of the human heart as he pursues his revenge--"he will be
mine"--against Hester's lover, the Reverend .

Hester wears her scarlet
letter under her own terms as she tends the ailing and the dying, becoming an angel of mercy to
the community.  Her many acts of altruism and her humble acceptance of her ostracism lead
people to perceive the significance of the letter A as that of
"Angel."  Thus, she triumphs over the evilof adulterer.

But, above
and beyond the stigma of the scarlet letter, Hester triumphs over evil in the form of Roger
Chillingworth.  Even the incarnation of Hester and Dimmesdale's sin of passion, little,
recognizes the evil in Chillingworth, calling him the "Black Man," a term meaning the
Satanic man who...