The time and place of The Scarlet Letter is in, “…the good town of Boston,” Massachusetts, in the year 1850 (105). In the 1850’s people think differently of different things such as crime and life, a simpler time with simple thoughts and people.

1.b. Discuss how the setting contributes to the believability of the novel.

In The Scarlet Letter, the setting of Boston is surrounded by a, “… vast and dismal forest” (68). The story could of taken place in a different place that has bodies of water, a forest, and a town, that is near a peninsula, because the setting doesn’t play a major role in the story except when Hester and Pearl go into the forest, where Hester has a life-turning talk with Mr. Dimmesdale. The forest is like a dark and mysterious place where a dark creature, the “Black Man,” lives. The time, however, cannot be changed because the story deals with the beliefs of people from the 1850’s. For example people who committed adultery were killed for sinning, even the sinner’s children wer

One major theme of The Scarlet Letter is that a dark hidden secret, unless the secret is told to others, causes pain and suffering to the beholder. Dimmesldale, “… had cleared his throat, and drawn in the long, deep, and tremulous breath … would come burdened with the black secret of his soul” (126). Throughout the story Dimmesdale is haunted by his dark secret, even in his every breath. Even though he tries to fight the pain for his secret, it haunts him and never leaves until he tells it to other people. A person can keep a haunting secret for a certain amount of time before the secret starts haunting him. Dimmesdale’s secret haunts him to his death.

2.b. What does Hester believe in? What is he willing to fight for? What is she willing to fight against?

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter Arthur Dimmesdale, and old minister, deals with the pain caused by his sin and dies in the end. Throughout the story Dimmesdale wants to get reed of the pain and misery caused by his sin. He gets reed of the pain by telling everyone about how he sinned with Hester, which takes away the burden on his heart. One major obstacle that gets in Di

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