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The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. [2] Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter with a man to whom she is not married and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.
The Scarlet Letter Angel and Apostle is a novel written by Deborah Noyes and published in 2005. It is often viewed as a sequel to The Scarlet Letter , a novel by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne , [ 1 ] but it is more like a companion due to the overlap of events between the novels.
Arthur Dimmesdale is a fictional character in the 1850 romance The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. A Puritan minister, he has fathered an illegitimate child, Pearl, with Hester Prynne and considers himself unable to reveal his sin. [1] [2]
"Hester Prynne & Pearl before the stocks", an illustration by Mary Hallock Foote from an 1878 edition of The Scarlet Letter. Hester Prynne is the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter. She is portrayed as a woman condemned by her Puritan neighbors for having a child out of wedlock. The character has been called ...
Roger Chillingworth is a fictional character and primary antagonist in the 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. He is an English scholar who moves to the New World after his wife, Hester Prynne.
[1] [2] Hibbins was later fictionalized in Nathaniel Hawthorne's famous novel The Scarlet Letter. [3] A wealthy widow, Hibbins was the sister-in-law by marriage to Massachusetts governor Richard Bellingham. [2] [4] Her sentence was handed down by Governor John Endicott. [nb 1] [3]
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
The Scarlet Letter (Damrosch opera), an 1896 opera based on the novel; The Scarlet Letter (Kroll opera), a 1965 opera composed by Fredric Kroll based on the novel; The Scarlet Letter (Laitman opera), a 2008 opera based on the novel; The Scarlet Letter, a 2014 album by Lil' Mo "Scarlet Letters" (song), a 2009 song by Mudvayne