The Scarlet Letter

Part I of Essay
Nathaniel Hawthorne is the author of . In Hester Prynne goes to Boston, Massachusetts to find a place to live and to wait for her husband to arrive. Hester Prynne is a young woman with a talent for sewing. Hester Prynne commits adultery but stays strong and couragiously ....

Part II of Essay
.... adulteress affair. She has to spend time in jail as well as wearing the letter “A” and also raises her daughter without a father. This makes the punishments both private and public. Hester wishes she were dead but then changes her mind because she says to Chillingworth, “I have thought of death, have wished for it, would even had prayed for it, Yet if death be in this cup, I bid thee think again, ere thou beholdest me quaff it. See! It is even now at my lips.” Hester is responsible for her adulteress affair with Dimmesdale. She deals w ....