The Scarlet Letter

Nathanial hatowrn

Setting place and time

• Boston Massachusetts• Middle of the seventeenth century

Point of View

• The narrator is omniscient, (when narrator knows everything). Its third person.

Main Characters

• Hester-jail for adultery. makes cloths for the period

• Pearl-starts to act like a fairy.• Voguer-gets captured by pirates.• Author D-commits born adultery with Hester

Conflicts

• Dim vs himself-Dim was dealing with his guilt.• Hester vs Society-everyone judges her than as

the story proceeds everyone excepts her.

Foreshadowing

• An example of foreshadowing in the story is when Chillingworth is talking to Hester in the dungeon. He keeps saying "He will be known! He will be known! He will be known!"

Symbols

• A-adulterer,able,angle,• Rosebush-hope in a terrible place

leech(sucking the life out of dim)shape of an A stood for angle

Irony

• Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the letter actually appeared. By nathanial hawthorn.

Plot Summary

In the 1600s in Boston, women named Hester committed adultery and had a child . Towns people were outraged and made her wear the scarlet letter A, on her clothes. Husband who was goanna follow her after, had settled some affairs, sent her to Boston. But at least two years passed still didn’t show up. while Hester receiving some punishment, she notices her husband.

Theme

• Sin knowledge and human condition the nature of evil.