The Scarlet Letter is a movie that has changed many times and in this summary I will try
to stick to this one movie, even though I may compare it to the novel. As you already
know, The Scarlet Letter was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne dealing with the times of
the Salem witch trials and puritan life. It is said that Hawthorne was very focused on
these times because he felt guilty because his ancestors sent many men and women
through various trails including burning and drowning them. Hawthorne is a great writer
and one of my personal favorites, he writes in such a way that a vision is formed in your
mind and he shows the feelings of those in his stories, real or imagined.
For preset the movie is told from Pearl's eyes as if looking back on the lover her
mother and father shared and their trials to be together. It begins with Mistress Hester
Prin coming to the colonies without her husband, which many viewed as odd anyway.
Hester finds her a nice cottage on the......
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