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Hester, a New England maid of Puritan
background, marries Roger Prynne, whom she does not love. During
her husband's long absence she walks the woodland lanes with her pastor, the
Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, and they soon fall in love.
When a child
is born to her, she is condemned to wear upon her breast the brand of
Adulteress and refuses to divulge the name of the child's father. With
patient resignation she faces the jeers and insults of the stern Puritan
population and fights to retain her child. Hester is punished in the
pillory and, when she is led to the public scaffold, Dimmesdale, who has
long been eager yet fearful to share in her public shame, confesses and dies
of his anguish in her arms. |
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