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Hester Prynne In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

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The Scarlet Letter was written in 1849 and its main topics are guilt, forgiveness and religious fatalism. Hester Prynne, a young lady, is led out of the Puritan town‘s prison with an infant daughter in her arms and is found guilty of adultery. Not wanting to reveal her daughter‘s father Hester must wear a Scarlet Letter A on her bossom as a sign of shame. Furthermore, she must stand on the scaffold for three hours, exposed to public humilation. As Hester looks out over the crowd, she notices a small, misshapen man and recognizes him as her husband who has been presumed lost at sea. He chooses a new identity, Roger Chillingworth, to help him with his plan of getting revenge and finding out who the father of the child is. Chillingworth finds

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