The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorn, is a story about love, evil, revenge, and sin between four people. Two lovers, Hester Prynne and Dimmesdale commit adultery and were separated from their sin, but only Hester was caught. The husband of Hester, Chillingsworth, comes back from his voyage across the sea and finds she has a child from her lover and he devotes his life to seek revenge on …showed first 75 words of 684 total…

…showed last 75 words of 684 total…The scaffold was a symbol of punishment for Hester, The letter “A” was a symbol of punishment and sin, and the rosebush was a symbol of hope. These symbols were only three out of many other symbols used to represent the characters and their emotions in the story. In the end, the two lovers are buried by eachother in Boston, together at last for eternity and their daughter, Pearl, is happily married with good fortune.