Red characters - (Illustrated Edition of World Literature Classics)

Author: Hawthorne
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Through the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman bound by an unreasonable marriage, who is imprisoned, paraded, and isolated for a long time due to the crime of "adultery," the novel exposes the cold and hypocritical colonial society under the rule of the combined political-religious system, and explores moral and philosophical issues related to sin and human nature. Other works include "The House of the Seven Gables," "The Marble Man," "The Black Minister's Serpent," etc. In the early days of the American colonies, the Puritan ideology that restrained human nature held the dominant position. In a small town called Concord, Hester, who lives alone, falls in love with the young minister Arthur Dimmesdale and gives birth to an illegitimate daughter. Hester takes full responsibility for her crime and is sentenced to wear the scarlet letter for life. Hester endures the gaze of the world and the loneliness of her heart, while painstakingly raising her daughter and working hard, doing her best.