Scarlet Letter

Brian Bowers
Mrs. ColaGiovanni
11-24-03
Period 8


“Hold thy peace, dear little Pearl!” whispered her mother. “We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest” (162). The Scarlet Letter encompasses many different themes carefully inserted into the text by the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne. In his novel, Hawthorne tells the story of a young woman guilty of adultery in the late 17th century. The story takes place in the strict puritan town of Boston, where the church punishes the guilty woman, Hester Pry...