Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century
Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate
birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the
public and the private selves. Publicly disgraced and ostracized, Hester Prynne
draws on her inner strength and certainty of spirit to emerge as the first true
heroine of American fiction. Arthur Dimmesdale, trapped by the rules of
society, stands as a classic study of a self divided.
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