Hester Prynne is the adulteress, forced by the Puritan community to wear a scarlet letter A on the breast of her gown. Arthur Dimmesdale, the minister and the secret father of her child, Pearl, struggles with the agony of conscience and his own weakness. Roger Chillingworth, Hester’s husband, revenges himself on Dimmesdale by calculating assaults on the frail mental state of the conscience-stricken cleric. The result is an American tragedy of stark power and emotional depth that has mesmerized critics and readers for nearly a century and a half.
Genres
- American fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Fiction
- History
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- Illegitimate children
- American literature
- Women immigrants
- Puritans
- Adultery
- Revenge
- Clergy
- Romans, nouvelles
- Histoire
- Triangle (Relations humaines)
- Enfants naturels
- Littérature américaine
- Immigrantes
- Puritains
- Vengeance
- Constitution civile du clerge .
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