I have to read it for a project and I'm not sure what it's really about and the introduction is long.
2006-09-05 11:23:41 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Notes and plot here. I never finished the book it got on my nerves.
2006-09-05 12:21:46 · answer #1 · answered by ▒Яenée▒ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The story of an affair between a married woman and a protestant minister in the 1700s in Puritan New England.
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2006-09-05 12:16:47 · answer #2 · answered by Tommy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My advice is read the introduction to the book yourself or read the back cover. Many people have many different opinions on the book they read, true they are reading the same plot but they just interpret it differently. Its a great book, once you get into it the book goes by fast. Its a classic!
2006-09-05 11:27:22 · answer #3 · answered by ♥ Lips of Morphine ♥ 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Go by the cliffnotes, the book is stupid as hell...Hester Prynne was being slutty so they made her wear a scarlet (red) colored letter "A" on her chest for "Adulterer". That's the whole boring azz story in a nutshell. That's what happens when you take Honors classes in highschool, you get the worse reading material, I remember!
2006-09-05 11:34:44 · answer #4 · answered by duvaldiva.com 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fornication and the results as seen from the Puritan American point of view.
2006-09-05 11:27:50 · answer #5 · answered by rb_cubed 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
a woman who has sex with the preacher, she gets marked with a scarlet A=adulterer and he goes off scott free, her daughter is a "witch" and the two women are ostracized while the man who was equally guilty pays no price
2006-09-05 11:26:41 · answer #6 · answered by Carol R 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From what I heard (haven't read it myself) it's based in like the 17th or 18th century where a woman has an affair with a married man and is forced to get a burn mark to signify her crime.
2006-09-05 11:26:43 · answer #7 · answered by Kevin J 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is a very good book about how a community can be prejudiced against certain people for what they view as unacceptable behavior.
2006-09-05 11:27:04 · answer #8 · answered by jusme 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
She's not a widow, her husband is away. Her daughter is not a witch, I don't know where that came from. And there is no burn mark, the "A" is on her dress.
The story is known for its use of symbolism.
2006-09-05 11:28:58 · answer #9 · answered by ♥ady_8e_80♥ 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
well for what i remember is about a widow who have sex with one guy and they put a letter A in red in her dress so everybody knows in the town that she is a person who commits sin or something like that
2006-09-05 11:26:45 · answer #10 · answered by want fun in the sun 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋