

Only Hester can face the future bravely, as she prepares to begin a new life with her daughter, Pearl, in Europe. Dimmesdale is broken by his own sense of guilt, and he publicly confesses his adultery before dying in Hester’s arms. In the end, Chillingworth is morally degraded by his monomaniacal pursuit of revenge. How much do you really know about the stories and the authors of the classics you love, from Jane Eyre to Brave New World? Although she is initially scorned, over time her compassion and dignity silence many of her critics. Hester herself is revealed to be a self-reliant heroine who is never truly repentant for committing adultery with the minister she feels that their act was consecrated by their deep love for each other. Stricken by guilt, Dimmesdale becomes increasingly ill. When he learns that the man in question is Arthur Dimmesdale, a saintly young minister who is the leader of those exhorting her to name the child’s father, Chillingworth proceeds to torment him. After Hester refuses to name her lover, Chillingworth becomes obsessed with finding his identity. He finds his wife forced to wear the scarlet letter A on her dress as punishment for her adultery. Hester believes herself 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 novel is set in a village in Puritan New England. Nathaniel Hawthorne, photograph by Mathew Brady.

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