The Scarlet Letter
Nathanial hatowrn
Setting place and time
• Boston Massachusetts
• Middle of the seventeenth century
Point of View
• The narrator is omniscient, (when narrator
knows everything). Its third person.
Main Characters
• Hester-jail for adultery. makes cloths for the
period
• Pearl-starts to act like a fairy.
• Voguer-gets captured by pirates.
• Author D-commits born adultery with Hester
Conflicts
• Dim vs himself-Dim was dealing with his guilt.
• Hester vs Society-everyone judges her than as
the story proceeds everyone excepts her.
Foreshadowing
• An example of foreshadowing in the story is
when Chillingworth is talking to Hester in the
dungeon. He keeps saying "He will be known!
He will be known! He will be known!"
Symbols
• A-adulterer,able,angle,
• Rosebush-hope in a terrible place
leech(sucking the life out of dim)shape of an A
stood for angle
Irony
• Trusting no man as his friend, he could not
recognize his enemy when the letter actually
appeared. By nathanial hawthorn.
Plot Summary
In the 1600s in Boston, women named Hester
committed adultery and had a child . Towns
people were outraged and made her wear the
scarlet letter A, on her clothes. Husband who
was goanna follow her after, had settled some
affairs, sent her to Boston. But at least two years
passed still didn’t show up. while Hester
receiving some punishment, she notices her
husband.
Theme
• Sin knowledge and human condition the
nature of evil.