The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850. The story centers on Hester Prynne, a young woman who is publicly shamed and ostracized after she gives birth to an illegitimate child. Hawthorne explores isolation, despair, bleakness, deceit, evil, remorse, stigma, regret, shame, death, and revenge—told while exploring the wavering boundaries […]