In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the setting is 17-century Boston Massachusetts, in a puritan colony. Hester Prynne, a passionate young woman, is the main character and the protagonist. Hester marries an elderly scholar named Chillingworth, the antagonist. . He disguises himself as a doctor when he returns to Boston to get revenge on Hester’s anonymous lover. He sends Hester ahead to America, but never follows her. While Chillingworth was away Hester has an affair with Dimmesdale, the minister. Dimmesdale is a young man who has achieved f
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