The Scarlet Letter By :
Nathaniel Hawthorne
By : Jailene & Sudesh
Setting :
• In the 17th century in England.
• Boston, Massachusetts.
Point Of View :
• Point of view refers to the perspective that the
narrator will use to tell the story. Nathaniel
Hawthorne's uses unnamed and ambiguous
narrator. A third person and subjective
perspective.
Main Characters :
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Hester Prynne – she is a single mother in one of the gloomiest most austere moments in
American history. Hester committed adultery with Dimmesdale. Hester have a daughter
name Pearl.
Arthur Dimmesdale-He is a reverend that committed adultery with Hester. He felt guilty for
what he did because he never confess. Pearl kiss him on the cheek when he was confessing
when he died.
Roger Chillingworth-he is the husband of Hester who had been kidnap for 2 years. Roger
wanted to get revenge on Dimmesdale.
Pearl- she was shock when her mother took her ‘A’ off. Pearl did not know who her father
was. When Roger died Pearl had money that Roger gave her.
Conflicts :
• Man vs. Man Man Vs. Man Chillingworth is
always playing mind games with Dimmesdale
because he suspects that he is Hester's hidden
lover. Man Vs. Self Dimmesdale is constantly
struggling between his secret love for Hester
and maintaining his position in the church.
Foreshadowing
• Hester steps out of the prison to see a
rosebush. She was standing in full bloom that
was reputed to have grown from the footsteps
of Anne Hutchinson.
Symbols :
• The Puritans mean for the scarlet letter to be
a symbol of Hester's shame But the narrator
describes the letter as a "mystic symbol" that
means many things.
• The letter ‘A’ symbolizes adultery of the
beginning of the story then changes to mean
able then symbolizes angel by the end of the
novel.
Irony :
Plot Summary :
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