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Hester Prynne Exposed In The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The Scarlet letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorn is a dark romance with a love triangle. The story begins when a married woman by the name of Hester Prynne is sent ahead of her husband to prepare a home and wait for his arrival. Years pass and her husband is assumed dead and lost at sea. The townspeople like to think that with an assumed widow on the loose, she is sure to go astray. This may or may not be the case, either way Hester still finds herself being the main attraction at the scaffold with a baby at her bosom. She stands there under the watchful eyes of the public, adorning the a scarlet letter “A” for adultery burning in her soul. This public shaming seems surreal to Hester. Then, to make matters worse with familiar features of her past witness this event. She …show more content…

He visits her in jail posing as a physician by the name of Roger Chillingworth. He makes her promise to keep his true identity a secret while he, in the words of Hawthorn, hunts for the man who has wronged them both. Several years pass. Hester is released. She and Pearl make a small cottage their home on the outskirts of Boston where she uses her elaborate needlework to support them both. Pearl grows older and starts to reveal elf-like qualities. This concerns the townspeople. Word gets back to Hester that Governor Bellingham plans to take Pearl away from her. Hester visits the Governor’s Hall to have a meeting about this matter. Reverend Wilson asks Pearl religious questions and she acts as if she doesn’t know what he is talking about. This almost gave the separation confirmation until Hester’s minister, Reverend Dimmesdale comes to her rescue and convinces the governor to

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