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The Scarlet Letter a tragic story of Hester .The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Containing a number of religious and historic allusions, the book explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.
The Scarlet Letter was one of the first mass-produced books in America. It was popular when first published and is considered a classic work today. It inspired numerous film, television, and stage adaptations. Critics have described it as a masterwork and novelist D. H. Lawrence called it a "perfect work of the American imagination".
Looking at the setting part of novel, the entire novel has a Puritan settlement which sets in the year of 1642 in a Bostan city. The entire plot of the novel mainly moves around the characters like Hester Pryne, Pearl, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth. But the protagonist character Hester Pryne-mother of Pearl mainly leads the plot of the novel. She is a young wife whose husband has been missing for over a year and she is accused for adultery following the birth of her infant daughter Pearl. Firstly she was forced to stand on scaffold for more than three hours and as she refused to reveal the name of her child’s father, this act angered the Puritanical citizens of Boston and she was forced to wear the scarlet letter A on her body as punishment for her adulterous affair with town minister Arthur Dimmesdale. After that she lived with her daughter at the edge of town while Chillingworth moves in with the beloved Reverend Dimmesdale. At the end of the novel Dimmesdale climbs the scaffold and confesses in front of everyone then dies of his wounds in Hester’s arms.
In a way,
It presents the journey of Hester and how she succeeded in
changing the meaning of Adultery to Able and at last Angle.
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