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The Scarlet Letter (Canon Classics Worldview Edition)

The Scarlet Letter (Canon Classics Worldview Edition)

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Wilson, Douglas

Paperback

Series: Canon Classics

Young Adult Fiction

ISBN10: 1591281989
ISBN13: 9781591281986
Publisher: Canon Pr
Published: Dec 1 2019
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
In an extended introduction, Hawthorne describes his employment in the Salem Custom House, and how he purportedly found an old document and a piece of cloth embroidered with the letter A in a pile of old papers. This fictitious document being the germ of the story that Hawthorne writes, as follows. In June 1642, in a Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, a crowd gathers to witness the punishment of Hester Prynne, a young woman who has given birth to a baby of unknown parentage. She is required to wear a scarlet A on her dress when she is in front of the townspeople to shame her. A stands for adulteress, although this is never said explicitly in the novel. Her punishment (because adultery is illegal at the time) is to stand on the scaffold for three hours, exposed to public humiliation, and to wear the scarlet A for the rest of her life. As Hester approaches the scaffold, many of the women in the crowd are angered by her beauty and quiet dignity. When demanded and cajoled to name the father of her child, Hester refuses.

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