The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a novel that takes place in a Puritan community during the middle of the seventeenth century. The story is about a woman named Hester Prynne who has an affair with a man by the name of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. This occurred after her husband inexplicably failed to join her in Boston after their emigration to American from Europe. Hester soon gives birth to a child, and is …
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…ever really be wrong. Answers can range from the several I supplied and go on to consist of things such as; anguish, anarchy, amiss, acknowledge, allegory, alone, etc. so long as the proper support is there. Although only one character in the book, Hester, actually wore the Scarlet Letter, other members of the book had it too. In various shapes and forms, either metaphorically or plainly available to see, the "A" became apart of everyone.