On Hester, because the one reason she committed adultery was due to the fact that she did not love her husband and was forced into marriage. She is treated terribly for her mistake even though she couldn't have prevented it since she was really never in love with Roger. Another reason why could be that if he didn't feel sympathetic towards her he wouldn't have given her the beauty she has, he could have easily taken it away from her.
It was a symbol for how he was feeling in his life, he felt that at that time he was in the scaffold because he was living a lie.
The noun sympathy is an uncountable noun as a word for a feeling of kindness and understanding for someone who is experiencing something very unpleasant; a harmonious agreement or accord.The plural form, sympathies, is a word for support or approval for ideas, beliefs, or people: My sympathies lie with those who come forward at their own risk.
That is a debatable issue. There are economic arguments in favor of drilling for oil in protected areas, and environmental arguments against such drilling. My personal sympathies lie with the environmental arguments.
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