The Scarlet Letter is a novel, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The novel takes place in Massachusetts Colony, located in Boston. Its main characters are Hester Prynne, a woman convicted of adultery; Arthur Dimmesdale, a minister of the community; Roger Chillingworth, a physician, he was also Hester's husband, and Pearl, Hester's daughter.
This book is about a woman named Hester Prynne, that was convicted and sentenced to go to jail for committing adultery. At the beginning of the novel she had to face her shame with her daughter in her arms in front of the colony wearing the letter A across her chest, which stood for adultery. Hester was from a poor background, and when she was young her family had married her to a husband who had great repute as a scholar. For some years before, the husband had sent his wife alone across the ocean to the Massachusetts Col
To make this story short what happened at the end was that the minister had admitted to be the father of Pearl, after time of agony he died and Hester ran away with her daughter. Years later she returned alone to live where she had been accused of adultery. Now that she came back she wasn't ashamed of wearing the Scarlet letter it had become an emblem of her tender mercy and kindness. At her death she directed that the only inscription or her tombstone should be the letter A
On the trial, the minister questioned her about the name of the father, but she had refused and then she was sent back to prison. After that she was found in a state of great nervous excitement and a doctor had to be called. What was most surprising of this was that the doctor was actually her husband whom she hasn't seen for a long time. Her husband had told her about what had happened to him and
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