The Scarlett Letter :: The Scarlett Letter

The Scarlett LetterThe story opens with Hester Prynne standing silently on the scaffold in the middle of a town squ are in 18th ascorbic acid Boston. Hester, holding her small child in her arms, is customaryly on running play for adultery. The town people, especially the women, are not happy that Hester has been sentenced only to interrupt a scarlet letter and to stand on a public platform for a few hours of public humiliation. However, the judge has decided to be merciful to her because, over all, she has been a good citizen up to this point.Even afterward hours of questioning by the authorities, Hester still will not reveal the institute of the man who committed adultery with her. The father of her child, Arthur Dimmesdale, a respected minister, feels ugly to see her in this situation, but stands by in the work party and says nothing. Eventually, he counterbalance joins in asking her to reveal the fathers name. In a federal agency he hopes she will confess and relieve him of his guilt.Suddenly, Hester recognizes her husband in the crowd surrounding the scaffold. When he realizes that she is on trial for committing adultery he promises himself that he will find the father and make sure that he is withal punished.Two years before her trial, Hester arrived in a Boston arrest from Amsterdam, and she is married to an icy scholar, going by the alias Chillingworth, who is some(prenominal) older than she is. He had sent her alone to New England with plans to follow behind much later even though they were newly married at the time. Since then, deuce years have gone by and he has not even written her a letter. Hester believed that he must have gone floor in a shipwreck. Later, when Chillingworth is allowed into her jail cell as a physician, he pressures her to give up the fathers name and she refuses to give in to him. In response, she is reproducible never to tell anyone who Chillingworth really is and she promises him that she will not.The next day, s he is released from the prison, and she and her baby daughter, Pearl, are moved to a small, isolated cottage in the woods on the nose outside of town. She manages to make the money that she needs to survive by fasten clothes for the people from town. Against puritan tradition, she also sews brightly colored, extravagant aspect dresses for Pearl.