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The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. [2] Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter with a man to whom she is not married and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.
"Hester Prynne & Pearl before the stocks", an illustration by Mary Hallock Foote from an 1878 edition of The Scarlet Letter. Hester Prynne is the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter. She is portrayed as a woman condemned by her Puritan neighbors for having a child out of wedlock. The character has been called ...
The parable is referenced in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter in Chapter 6: "But she named the infant 'Pearl', as being of great price – purchased with all she had,– her mother's only treasure!" [14] George Herbert's "The Pearl" is a reflection on the parable and the hefty price required of the speaker to follow God. The ...
Arthur Dimmesdale is a fictional character in the 1850 romance The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. A Puritan minister, he has fathered an illegitimate child, Pearl, with Hester Prynne and considers himself unable to reveal his sin. [citation needed] Next to Hester Prynne herself, Dimmesdale is often considered Hawthorne's finest ...
In 2022, 1 in 10 babies born in the U.S. were premature, an 8% increase since 2014 after a steady decline in the early 2010s. Babies born at less than 37 weeks of gestation are considered preterm ...
Roger Chillingworth. Fictional character from the 1850 novel "The Scarlet Letter". Roger Chillingworth is a fictional character and primary antagonist in the 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. He is an English scholar who moves to the New World after his wife, Hester Prynne .
A medieval "Mask of Shame", or scold's bridle. A badge of shame, also a symbol of shame, a mark of shame or a stigma, [ 1] is typically a distinctive symbol required to be worn by a specific group or an individual for the purpose of public humiliation, ostracism or persecution . The term is also used metaphorically, especially in a pejorative ...
MAGA Republican, who has endorsed Jim Jordan for the House speaker role, told reporters that she was wearing the ‘scarlet letter’ as a symbol that she had been ‘demonised’ at the Capitol ...