The Scarlet Letter

Here you are The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, your second reader for the second term.
Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter "A" stands for "Adultery".

In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only
between a husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was
a child of sin.

Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her life. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What will happen to her child, growing up in the shadow of the scarlet letter? The future holds no joy for Hester Prynne.

And what will happen to her sinful lover, the father of her child?

Read the book and discover...

New England in the 1600s, the Puritans´customs and their religion, and how anyone who breaks the laws of the church and of God, must be punished.

Here you can listen to an Audio Book Review: The Scarlet Letter (Adaptation): Oxford Bookworms.



Here you are Nathaniel Hawthorne´s Scarlet Letter summary on video.

   

Enjoy your reading!

And  as an additional activity, you can try these tasks:

1. Fill in the gaps with the right word.
Prison door /Pearl / meteor / Black Man / Able
a. The Scarlet letter stands for adultery and ....
b. ....... is an euphemism for Satan.
c. ....... is a symbol for all Hester gave up.
d. ...... has never known a "youthful era".
e. A .......explodes in the form of an A.

2. Watch the trailer of "The Scarlet Letter", directed by Roland Joffé and featuring Demi Moore
as Hester Prynne, Gary Oldman as Dimmesdale and Robert Duvall as Chillingworth. (1995). And meet the characters.