THE SCARLET LETTERNathanial Hawthorn

Design by Naseem HasratKIU Skardu

SETTING It was the puritan age in Boston.

SUMMARY OF THE SCARLET LETTER CHAPTER 1 A crowd of somber, dreary-looking

people has gathered outside the door of a prison in seventeenth-century Boston.

The writer is describing the prison jail in chapter 1.

The citizens of Boston, who built their prison some twenty years earlier.

SUMMARY OF THE SCARLET LETTER CHAPTER 2-THE MARKET-PLACE At scaffold Hester Prynne, a young

woman holding an infant, emerges from the prison door where she is to be publicly condemned

She had the letter ‘A’ on her dress which means adulterer.

It means in the absence of her husband she had committed a sin adultery.

SUMMARY OF THE SCARLET LETTER CHAPTER 3- THE RECOGNITION In the surrounding of scaffold, Hester

saw her husband chilling worth between the people and become stranger to her and asked for reason of punishment.

And he asks the stranger about the identity of the baby’s father.

The Stanger asked that Hester has refused to reveal her partner and she has to stay for three hour at scaffold.

SUMMARY OF THE SCARLET LETTER CHAPTER 3- THE RECOGNITION (CON) Later on two more character has been

introduced; Dimmesdale and the governor Bellingham. Dimmesdale which is famous as a speech. He delivered a sermon

At the when his sermon is finished she ahs put into the prison again.

SUMMARY CHAPTER 4: THE INTERVIEW

In this chapter chilling worth is taking interview form hester. He emphasis her to reveal the name of her partner but she refused to reveal.

When chilling worth offers her to drink medicine she refused and built a perception that he is the ‘Blackman ’ devil and disguise to damn her soul

SUMMARY—CHAPTER 5: HESTER AT HER NEEDLE

After few month she has been released from the prison.

Although she are free and can leave Boston but he does not.

She has been alienated from al member of society.

She has been served as de low class job She devotes part of her time to charity

work, but even this is more punishment than solace: those she helps frequently insult her

SUMMARY—CHAPTER 6 TO ONWORD

Hester refuses to tell Pearl what the scarlet letter signifies, and Pearl becomes obsessed with the letter. Meanwhile, Chillingworth is working in Boston as a physician, though he has no formal medical training. One of his patients is Dimmesdale, who has fallen ill with heart trouble. Chillingworth moves in with Dimmesdale to care for him full-time and begins to suspect a connection between Dimmesdale's heart ailment and Hester's crime. When he discovers that Dimmesdale has carved a mark over his heart that resembles Hester's scarlet letter, Chillingworth realizes that Dimmesdale is Hester's lover. Chillingworth decides to torment and expose Dimmesdale.

SUMMARY Under Chillingworth's cruel care,

Dimmesdale's health deteriorates. Dimmesdale's guilt for committing and concealing adultery causes him profound emotional suffering. He even starves and whips himself as punishment. One night Dimmesdale mounts the same scaffold upon which Hester was publicly shamed. At just that moment, Hester and Pearl pass by and join Dimmesdale on the scaffold. A meteor lights the sky in the shape of a red "A" and illuminates Chillingworth standing nearby.

SUMMARY Hester decides she must help

Dimmesdale, and pleads with Chillingworth to stop tormenting him. Chillingworth acknowledges that he's become cruel and wicked, but argues that he's actually protecting Dimmesdale by not revealing his secret to the public. Hester then takes matters into her own hands: she intercepts Dimmesdale in the forest and tells him Chillingworth's true identity.

SUMMARY She convinces Dimmesdale to flee with her

and Pearl to Europe, and they make plans to take a ship the day after Dimmesdale is scheduled to deliver an important sermon. Dimmesdale delivers the sermon (the best of his life). However, he realizes he's dying and won't make it to Europe. He mounts the scaffold and asks Hester and Pearl to join him. He confesses his sin to the crowd and bares his chest, revealing a scarlet letter carved into his own skin. He dies as Pearl kisses him for the first time.

SUMMARY Hester and Pearl leave Boston.

Chillingworth dies a year after Dimmesdale, leaving Pearl a small fortune as an inheritance. Many years later, Hester returns to her cabin on the outskirts of town. She still wears her letter "A." Pearl has married into money in Europe and writes to Hester on occasion. Hester remains in Boston until her death and is buried alongside Dimmesdale. Their shared tombstone bears a letter "A."

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