“The Scarlet Letter” was opened with an introductory sketch of the Custom House. Here, is the explanation about how the book came to be written. In the Custom House’s attic, the nameless narrator who has a job position as a surveyor in Salem Custom House discovered a number of documents. One of them is a manuscript that was bundled with a scarlet, gold-embroidered patch of cloth in the shape of an “A”. This manuscript contains detailed events that were occurred some two hundred years before the narrator’s time. The narrator finally decided to write a fictional account of the events that is recorded in the manuscript. “The Scarlet Letter” is the final product (http://www.sparknotes.com.lit/scarlet/).
“The Scarlet Letter” has a setting of the New England Puritans in the 17th century. The story begins with Hester Prynne who was just released from Boston prison to the town scaffold where she was going to be publicly shamed for what she had conducted. She is a young beautiful woman who had married to Roger Chillingworth, but she was left by her husband for much of time. Due to this reason, she had committed adultery with a young respected Puritan’s clergyman named Arthur Dimmesdale. This adultery caused her pregnant and given birth a child with no father. In the town scaffold, Hester was questioned by the two town fathers named Reverend John Wilson and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, about the name of her illegal partner, but she refused to answer it. Hester carried also her infant daughter, Pearl, in the town scaffold. Hester was forced to wear the letter “A” on her gown all the times as a badge of shame. In a large crowd of Puritans, Hester surprisedly recognized her husband, Roger Chillingworth, who sent her to America before him but he never arrived in Boston. The rumor was Roger Chillingworth had been lost at sea. During the absence of her husband, Hester Prynne met Arthur Dimmesdale and committed adultery. This affair given birth to a child. She made a decision to keep silent of her lover’s identity and accepted the punishment of the sin by herself. Hester felt agitated of her husband arrival after she was returned to the prison cell. And this condition had made Pearl upset and cried hardly. Therefore the jailer of the Boston prison allowed a physician to enter Hester’s prison cell in order to calm them down. Roger Chillingworth taken this opportunity and he pretended to be a physician for Hester and Pearl. During his medical treatment of Pearl, Roger Chillingworth made a long conversation with Hester Prynne. He forced her to make a confession about the name of the one who had made her pregnant, but once again she refused it. Here, Roger Chillingworth asked Hester Prynne to conceal his true identity from the public and declared that he will try hard to make a revenge to a person who had made his wife pregnant.
Hester was ostracized by the society because of her shameful sin that caused her moved into a small cottage on the outskirts of Boston in order to set up her new life. She supported herself and Pearl by doing stitch work for local dignitaries, and often spent some of her money helping the poor and sick. Hester Prynne becomes an autonomous and pure woman because of this hard condition. Seven years passed, Pearl grew up to be wild and impish child. Governor Bellingham, a community official, attempted to separate Pearl away from her mother’s care in order to give her a better life in a more Christian household. In this case, Hester succeed to defend her daughter with the help of Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale, however, has a poor health which was seemingly caused by his secrecy. Due to this reason, Roger Chillingworth offered himself to be Dimmesdale’s physician, which eventually made them live in the same roof. Roger Chillingworth suspected that may be there is a connection between Arthur Dimmesdale’s suffering and Hester Pynne’s secret. Roger Chillingworth eventually discovered that Dimmesdale is the true father of Pearl through his discovery of a mark on Dimmesdale’s chest, a physical mark of the scarlet letter, which convinced him that his suspicion is correct.
One night Dimmesdale sought absolution for his crime that he left his house and walked to the town scaffold where Hester was publicly humiliated seven years prior. He stood on it and tried to punish himself for his sin, in the way of imagined many of things that Hester went through and imagined also that the whole town watching him with a physical mark of the scarlet letter which was emblazoned on his chest. While he stood there alone, Hester and Pearl were on their way home from Governor Winthrop’s deathbed in order to take a measurement for a robe. Dimmesdale then asked them to join with him standing on the scaffold. In this moment, Pearl also asked Dimmesdale to stand with them on the scafffold at the noontide of the next day. Dimmesdale refused Pearl’s request that he acknowledging her as his daughter publicly tomorrow noontide. At that moment, a meteor marked a dull red “A” in the night sky. It illuminated everything, including Dimmesdale with his hand over his hearth and the scarlet letter on Hester’s gown. When they looked down again, they realized that Roger Chillingworth watched them across the street. Here, Dimmesdale told Hester that truly he is afraid of Roger Chillingworth’s existence near to him. Dimmesdale then was taken home by Roger Chillingworth. Hester naturally realized that Chillingworth is killing Dimmesdale slowly, and that she had to safe him from Roger Chillingworth quickly.
A few weeks later Hester and her daughter, Pearl, met Chillingworth in the forest and told him that she is going to reveal his true identity to Dimmesdale. This encounter was intended to warn Dimmesdale about Chillingworth’s true identity. At the first time, Dimmesdale felt furious with the revelation, but then Hester’s mistake was forgiven by Dimmesdale and he finally agreed with Hester’s argument that they should run away together. They made a decision to go to Europe with a ship that is going to be sailed from Boston one day after Dimmesdale’s Election Sermon. At the end of the story, Arthur Dimmesdale made a confession of his big sin publicly and then died soon after he opened his cloth to expose a scarlet letter which was seared into the flesh of his chest.
“The Scarlet Letter” has a setting of the New England Puritans in the 17th century. The story begins with Hester Prynne who was just released from Boston prison to the town scaffold where she was going to be publicly shamed for what she had conducted. She is a young beautiful woman who had married to Roger Chillingworth, but she was left by her husband for much of time. Due to this reason, she had committed adultery with a young respected Puritan’s clergyman named Arthur Dimmesdale. This adultery caused her pregnant and given birth a child with no father. In the town scaffold, Hester was questioned by the two town fathers named Reverend John Wilson and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, about the name of her illegal partner, but she refused to answer it. Hester carried also her infant daughter, Pearl, in the town scaffold. Hester was forced to wear the letter “A” on her gown all the times as a badge of shame. In a large crowd of Puritans, Hester surprisedly recognized her husband, Roger Chillingworth, who sent her to America before him but he never arrived in Boston. The rumor was Roger Chillingworth had been lost at sea. During the absence of her husband, Hester Prynne met Arthur Dimmesdale and committed adultery. This affair given birth to a child. She made a decision to keep silent of her lover’s identity and accepted the punishment of the sin by herself. Hester felt agitated of her husband arrival after she was returned to the prison cell. And this condition had made Pearl upset and cried hardly. Therefore the jailer of the Boston prison allowed a physician to enter Hester’s prison cell in order to calm them down. Roger Chillingworth taken this opportunity and he pretended to be a physician for Hester and Pearl. During his medical treatment of Pearl, Roger Chillingworth made a long conversation with Hester Prynne. He forced her to make a confession about the name of the one who had made her pregnant, but once again she refused it. Here, Roger Chillingworth asked Hester Prynne to conceal his true identity from the public and declared that he will try hard to make a revenge to a person who had made his wife pregnant.
Hester was ostracized by the society because of her shameful sin that caused her moved into a small cottage on the outskirts of Boston in order to set up her new life. She supported herself and Pearl by doing stitch work for local dignitaries, and often spent some of her money helping the poor and sick. Hester Prynne becomes an autonomous and pure woman because of this hard condition. Seven years passed, Pearl grew up to be wild and impish child. Governor Bellingham, a community official, attempted to separate Pearl away from her mother’s care in order to give her a better life in a more Christian household. In this case, Hester succeed to defend her daughter with the help of Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale, however, has a poor health which was seemingly caused by his secrecy. Due to this reason, Roger Chillingworth offered himself to be Dimmesdale’s physician, which eventually made them live in the same roof. Roger Chillingworth suspected that may be there is a connection between Arthur Dimmesdale’s suffering and Hester Pynne’s secret. Roger Chillingworth eventually discovered that Dimmesdale is the true father of Pearl through his discovery of a mark on Dimmesdale’s chest, a physical mark of the scarlet letter, which convinced him that his suspicion is correct.
One night Dimmesdale sought absolution for his crime that he left his house and walked to the town scaffold where Hester was publicly humiliated seven years prior. He stood on it and tried to punish himself for his sin, in the way of imagined many of things that Hester went through and imagined also that the whole town watching him with a physical mark of the scarlet letter which was emblazoned on his chest. While he stood there alone, Hester and Pearl were on their way home from Governor Winthrop’s deathbed in order to take a measurement for a robe. Dimmesdale then asked them to join with him standing on the scaffold. In this moment, Pearl also asked Dimmesdale to stand with them on the scafffold at the noontide of the next day. Dimmesdale refused Pearl’s request that he acknowledging her as his daughter publicly tomorrow noontide. At that moment, a meteor marked a dull red “A” in the night sky. It illuminated everything, including Dimmesdale with his hand over his hearth and the scarlet letter on Hester’s gown. When they looked down again, they realized that Roger Chillingworth watched them across the street. Here, Dimmesdale told Hester that truly he is afraid of Roger Chillingworth’s existence near to him. Dimmesdale then was taken home by Roger Chillingworth. Hester naturally realized that Chillingworth is killing Dimmesdale slowly, and that she had to safe him from Roger Chillingworth quickly.
A few weeks later Hester and her daughter, Pearl, met Chillingworth in the forest and told him that she is going to reveal his true identity to Dimmesdale. This encounter was intended to warn Dimmesdale about Chillingworth’s true identity. At the first time, Dimmesdale felt furious with the revelation, but then Hester’s mistake was forgiven by Dimmesdale and he finally agreed with Hester’s argument that they should run away together. They made a decision to go to Europe with a ship that is going to be sailed from Boston one day after Dimmesdale’s Election Sermon. At the end of the story, Arthur Dimmesdale made a confession of his big sin publicly and then died soon after he opened his cloth to expose a scarlet letter which was seared into the flesh of his chest.
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