Summary Of Nathaniel Hawthornes "The Scarlet Letter"
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The story takes place in the Puritan village of Boston, Massachusetts,
during the first half of the 17th Century. Several years before the novel
begins, Hester Prynne came to the New World to await the arrival of her
husband who had business to conclude in Europe. However, Hester's husband
was cap ....
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scarlet letter and carries with dignity her three-month-old daughter Pearl.
As Hester endures this public disgrace, Roger Chillingworth, an old man new
to the village, asks members of the crowd about her and learns as much of
her story as is commonly known. When he asks the identity of the child's
father, he discovers Hester has refused to divulge this information. From
the balcony overlooking the scaffold, the young Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale
also asks for this information and eloquently a ....
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