Immorality+and+choices+made+by+characters

After spending two years by herself in a new world, Hester gives birth to a child, despite her husband in that time. She had made the first immoral decision in the book. She had cheated on her husband for a reverend. Her choice starts a chain of other immoral acts by other characters.

After Hester's baby is born, Dimmesdale makes another immoral choice. Instead of admitting to being the father, he let it eat at him and waited until he died to say what he had done in public. This combined with having an affair with a married woman makes Dimmesdale a very immoral person.

Chillingworth finally comes to Massachusetts and discovers his wife on the scaffold with a baby that is not his. His acts after arriving are possibly the most immoral ones. He pretends to be Dimmesdale's doctor and friend, but in reality he is trying to kill him slowly. Instead of killing him, he lets guilt eat away at the Reverend and gives him medicine to make it more painful. Not only did Chillingworth send his wife alone to a new world without him, he also made it unbearable once he finally did come.