... novel is this: Hester Prynne is a women living in seventeenth-century New England. She is convicted of committing adultery. At the beginning of the novel, Hester is forced to wear a scarlet letter, A, on her dress as a sign of her guilt. She steadfastly refuses to reveal the identity of her adulterous partner. However, her husband eventually realizes who her lover is and takes ... a romantic interpretation. According to Carpenter, "Hester did not sin at all: or that, if she did, she transformed her sin into a virtue according to the romantics, the tragedy of the Scarlet Letter does not ...

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