Love, sin, guilt, an illegitimate child, adultery, and a sick twisted husband seeking his own kind of twisted revenge on who he suspects the baby's father is, it sounds like a scene off the soap operas, but this soap opera is set in Puritan New England. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel that deals with people and how they respond to adversity in a Puritan village in New England. In the novel …showed first 75 words of 958 total…

…showed last 75 words of 958 total…been cured or not is a mystery that we will never solve. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne was and still is an American classic. Every generation that reads this book absorbs knowledge of how our ancestors dealt with punishments both legally and how they judged people. A novel about guilt, sin, and love this book will remain a classic for many years to come even if it is just a sixteenth century soap opera.