The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter is a novel set in Puritan Boston. Narrator of the novel is custom house surveyors who found this story. And then he narrates the story of a Adulteress Hester Prynne.

In the begining of the novel Hester was standing on scaffold because  of commiting Adultery. Dimmesdale and other priests ask her to reveal name of father of Pearl but Hester refuses to give name of her fellow sinner. So she has to wear Scarlet A on her bosom- symbol of Adulteress Hester. During this Roger chillingworth comes, who, we later come to know is the husband of Hester. But somehow not able to come to Boston. After punishment She lives with her daughter Pearl on the outskirt of the town. The novel is full of suffering of Hester.When she passes through market people follows her, beats drum that Hester has came and abuses her.And Dimmesdale who is the real father of Pearl watches all these from window.

Roger chillingworth - a newly arrived physician in Boston lives with Dimmesdale. Any how he came to know that actual reason behind illness is unconfessed sin, so Dimmesdale is the father of Pearl.

Later on, Dimmesdale meets Hester in forest and both plan to settle somewhere else. Dimmesdale confeses his sin publically and dies. Chillingworth also dies because now there is no object to take revenge. Pearl marries and went to Europe. Hester also dies and she was buried near grave of Dimmesdale.

And we can see the transformation of Hester from Adulteress to Able to Angle Hester.

Literature always stands for humans.

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is an 1850 work of fiction in a historical setting, written by

Nathaniel Hawthorne, and is considered to be his magnum opus.Set in 17th-century

Puritan Boston , Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester

Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity . Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism , sin , and guilt .