... Black Veil," "Roger Malvin's Burial," "Young Goodman Brown," "Rappaccini's Daughter," "The Great Stone Face," and "Ethan Brand." Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is considered by many to be the greatest ccomplishment of an author hailed as the master of the American short story. It is set in Salem, ... was exposed and punished. Hester Prune has sinned, and society places the scarlet letter on her breast as a reminder of this transgression. Hester Prune confesses to adultery in the marketplace. The scaffold as a place for confession is civilized and controlled by the townspeople...

• Word Count: 2453
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... 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 ... who is portrayed as the one to blame for his "fall." In the novel, the public confession of her lover, Dimmesdale, the "sinful" priest seems to absolve him of his sins by making such a public confession. The same is not true for Hester. She is doomed at the end...

• Word Count: 1505
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... She was a beautiful woman who was strong and the other women crowded around her because of jealousy. In that remarkable forest scene in The Scarlet Letter, the long repressed/suppressed sexuality of Hester is suddenly exposed when she releases her hair. The reader immediately recognizes that the complex art of her ... is. Hester began to fade away to nothing. She was no longer beautiful and did not have that glowing appearance in her anymore. The scarlet letter had taken over her appearance."Mother," said little Pearl, "the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, becau...

• Word Count: 1408
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School