Scarlet Letter

In Nathaniel Hawthorne''s dark novel, The Scarlet Letter, a single sinful act ruins the lives of three people. None more so than Hester Prynne, a young, beautiful, and dignified woman, who conceived a child out of wedlock and receives the public punishment of having to always wear a scarlet "A" on her clothing.She refuses to reveal the father of her child, which could lighten her sentence. Her hus...