6/7/2023 0 Comments The scarlet letter audio![]() ![]() The Scarlet Letter rightfully deserves its stature as the first great novel written by an American, the novel that announced American literature equal to any in the world. ![]() While the town chorus is murmuring against her and her old and unattractive husband stares silently at her, the young and handsome clergyman publicly demands the name of her partner in crime-while desperately praying that she won't reveal him. As she stands there, she sees her long-missing husband, who has been held captive by Indians. Instead she is condemned to always wear the letter A as a badge of her shame. As a married woman with a missing husband and a new baby, Hester Prynne could have been sentenced to death for the crime of adultery. A young woman stands on a scaffold clasping a three-month-old baby. The story opens in Puritan Boston, a settlement only fifteen or twenty years old. Nathaniel Hawthorneâs classic American story of Hester Prynne, accused of adultery, ostracized by her Puritan community, and abandoned by both her lover and her husband ![]()
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