![]() ![]() After Hester refuses to name her lover, Chillingworth becomes obsessed with uncovering his identity. He finds his wife forced to wear the scarlet letter A on her dress as punishment for her adultery. At the time of conception, Hester believed that she was a widow, but her husband, Roger Chillingworth, arrives in New England very much alive and conceals his identity. The main character is Hester Prynne, a young woman who has borne a child out of wedlock. ![]() The setting is the superstitious Puritan community of Boston in the seventeenth century. Although it was published in 1850, the major theme of shaming and social stigmatizing is just as relevant today. The Scarlet Letter is a classic of American literature. ![]() Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers – stern and wild ones – and they made her strong, but taught her much amiss.’ Nathaniel Hawthorne ‘The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. David Stuart Davies looks at Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic American novel, a tale of sin, guilt and redemption set in Massachusetts in the mid-seventeenth Century ![]()
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