Puritan society located in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Hester Prynne, a recent adulturer, is released from prison and now has to face the humiliation of wearing a red A on her chest. The act of adultery was known because of the result of the crime; a daughter named Pearl. While Hester is forced with prison time, isolation, guilt, and humiliation, she refuses to give up the name of Pearl’s father, Arthur Dimmesdale. Hester’s husband long lost husband , Roger Chillingworth, has finally made his way to…
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