In Nathaniel Hawthorn's The Scarlet Letter, love and hate appear as independent powers that consume their holders. In this novel, Nathaniel Hawthorn presents a picture of the Puritans which shows an important part of American history. The Scarlet Letter outlines the American's brief moment of theocracy and extreme social order. Hawthorn is one of the first American writers to explore the hidden motivations of his characters. The Puritans wanted to establish an ideal community in America that can act as a model of influence for what they saw as a corrupted civil and religious order in England. This sense of mission is the core of their religious and social identity. That is why they required a strict moral regulation. The research tackles the fact that: no one is free from sins and evils, but it is man's choice to overcome this evil or to be overcome by it. The investigation is thematic in this research. The focal point is that love and hate are strong human emotions that make people depend upon each other. It shows that Love is the power of giving and healing. The pure love affair between Dimmesdale and Hester has given them the product of their affair named Pearl. The Scarlet Letter is a mixture of a love story, sin and punishment, but, it is a story of how love prevails after all because it is God's reflection in human beings and it is one of God's many ways to live in peace. Hawthorne in some way gives the solution for defeating one's evil and preventing it from turning into a psychological disease.