文档介绍:红字的故事梗概英文版
New England in the 17th century: Young Hester Prynne arrives at the colony with the purpose to find a house 红字的故事梗概英文版
New England in the 17th century: Young Hester Prynne arrives at the colony with the purpose to find a house for herself and
her husband, old doctor Roger Prynne, who stillresides in good old England and will follow later. From the first day the other inhabitants of the village notice that Hester is intelligent and independent, which attracts the ones and strucks the others.
When she, however, finds herself a house near the forest and takes a walk in it she sees by chance a naked young manswimming in the river nearby. The man, as she finds out later, is the
very popular Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. The two soon find themselves attracted to each other and secretly begin an affair.
As the result of this Hester becomes pregnant and when the government finds out, she is showedup in public and has to wear a scarlet "A" as "adultery" on he