Kızıl Damga - The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter opens with a long preamble önsöz about how the book came to be written. The nameless isimsiz narrator anlatan was the surveyor araştırmacı of the customhouse gümrük dairesi in Salem, Massachusetts. In the customhouse's attic tavanarası, he discovered a number of documents, among them a manuscript el yazması that was bundled sarmak with a scarlet kıpkırmızı, gold-embroidered nakışla süslemek patch parça of cloth in the shape of an "A.' The manuscript, the work of a past surveyor, detailed events that occurred some two hundred years before the narrator's time. When the narrator lost his customs post, he decided to write a fictional account of the events recorded in the manuscript. The Scarlet Letter is the final product.
The story begins in seventeenth-century Boston, then a Puritan tutucu protestan settlement uzlaşma. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant bebek daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter "A' on her breast göğüs. A man in the crowd tells an elderly onlooker izleyici that Hester is being punished for adultery zina. Hester's husband, a scholar alim much older than she is, sent her ahead to America, but he never arrived in Boston. The consensus ortak görüş is that he has been lost at sea. While waiting for her husband, Hester has apparently belli ki had an affair ilişki, as she has given birth to a child. She will not reveal açıklamak her lover's identity kimlik, however, and the scarlet letter, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin günah and her secrecy gizlilik. On this day Hester is led to the town scaffold darağacı and harangued konuşma yapmak by the town fathers, but she again refuses to identify her child's father.
The elderly onlooker is Hester's missing husband, who is now practicing medicine and calling himself Roger Chillingworth. He settles in Boston,intent kararlı on revenge intikam. He reveals his true identity to no one but Hester, whom he has sworn to secrecy. Several years pass. Hester supports herself by working as a seamstress terzi (kadın), and Pearl grows into a willful inatçı,impish afacan child.Shunned sakınmak by the community, they live in a small cottage kulübe on the outskirts dışında of Boston. Community officials attempt to take Pearl away from Hester, but, with the help of Arthur Dimmesdale, a young and eloquent dilbaz minister, the mother and daughter manage to stay together. Dimmesdale, however, appears to be wasting away and suffers from mysterious heart trouble, seemingly caused by psychological distress. Chillingworth attaches himself to the ailing rahatsız minister and eventually sonunda moves in with him so that he can provide his patient with round-the-clock care. Chillingworth also suspects that there may be a connection between the minister's torments eziyet etmek and Hester's secret, and he begins to test Dimmesdale to see what he can learn. One afternoon, while the minister sleeps, Chillingworth discovers a mark on the man's breast (the details of which are kept from the reader), which convinces him that his suspicions are correct.
Dimmesdale's psychological anguish ızdırap deepens, and he invents new tortures işkence for himself. In the meantime, Hester's charitable yardımsever deeds eylem and quiet humility alçakgönüllülük have earned her a reprieve cezanın tecili. from the scorn hor görme of the community. One night, when Pearl is about seven years old, she and her mother are returning home from a visit to a deathbed ölüm döşeği when they encounter karşılaşmak Dimmesdale atop üstünde the town scaffold, trying to punish himself for his sins. Hester and Pearl join him, and the three link hands. Dimmesdale refuses Pearl's request istek that he acknowledge kabul etmek her publicly the next day, and a meteor marks a dull red "A' in the night sky. Hester can see that the minister's condition is worsening, and she resolves karar vermek to intervene araya girmek. She goes to Chillingworth and asks him to stop adding to Dimmesdale's self-torment. Chillingworth refuses.
Hester arranges an encounter karşılaşma with Dimmesdale in the forest because she is aware that Chillingworth has probably guessed that she plans to reveal his identity to Dimmesdale. The former eski lovers decide to flee kaçmak to Europe, where they can live with Pearl as a family. They will take a ship sailing from Boston in four days. Both feel a sense of release, and Hester removes her scarlet letter and lets down her hair. Pearl, playing nearby, does not recognize her mother without the letter. The day before the ship is to sail, the townspeople gather for a holiday and Dimmesdale preaches his most eloquent sermon vaaz ever. Meanwhile, Hester has learned that Chillingworth knows of their plan and has booked ayırtmak passage on the same ship. Dimmesdale, leaving the church after his sermon, sees Hester and Pearl standing before the town scaffold. He impulsively düşüncesizce mounts çıkmak the scaffold with his lover and his daughter, and confesses itiraf etmek publicly,exposing ortaya çıkarmak a scarlet letter seared dağlanmış into the flesh of his chest. He falls dead, as Pearl kisses him.
Frustrated amacına ulaşamamış in his revenge, Chillingworth dies a year later. Hester and Pearl leave Boston, and no one knows what has happened to them. Many years later, Hester returns alone, still wearing the scarlet letter, to live in her old cottage and resume yeniden başlamak her charitable work. She receives occasional nadiren letters from Pearl, who has married a European aristocrat and established a family of her own. When Hester dies, she is buried next to Dimmesdale. The two share a single tombstone mezar taşı, which bears a scarlet "A.'