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The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne adulteress Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A to mark her shame Her lover Arthur Dimmesdale remains unidentified and is wracked with guilt while her husband Roger Chillingworth seeks revengeThe Scarlet Letterssymbolism helps create a powerful drama in Puritan Boston a kiss evil sin nature the scarlet letter and the punishing scaffold Nathaniel Hawthornes masterpiece is a classic example of the human conflict between emotion and intellect Written byNathaniel Hawthorne Type of Worknovel
Genresgothic romance psychological romance named by Hawthorne Gothic literature allegory First PublishedIn by Ticknor Reed & Fields SettingStarts in June in the Puritan town of Boston story continues over several years Main CharactersHester Prynne Arthur Dimmesdale Roger Chillingworth Pearl Major Thematic TopicsPuritan society sin guilt conflict between emotions and intellect nature of evil Motifs desires doubling dreams education fears passion resentment revenge violence Major Symbolsthe scarlet A the punishing scaffold a kiss evil sin nature Hawthornes characters light and darkness color imagery the settings of forest versus village Movie VersionsThe Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter Easy A The three most important aspects ofThe Scarlet Letter The scarlet A worn by Hester Prynne stands for adulterer Because her daughter Pearl was born more than nine months after Hester left her husband in England to come to America her fellow Puritans know that she was impregnated by someone to whom she was not married a sin Much of the novels introductory section The Custom House is true and is based on Hawthornes employment in the building of that same name in Salem Massachusetts The part about finding a letter A made of cloth that has been wrapped in a parchment manuscript however is entirely fictional The Scarlet Letteris a gothic romance not a historical novel It takes place at a recognizable place and time the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the th century but many of its details are fanciful rather than accurate For example the governors house as Hawthorne describes it has a brilliantly decorated exterior which would have been unlikely in Puritan Boston
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