Scarlet Letter Movie Vs Book

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THE SCARLET LETTER 2015 FILM
Just like in the book I’ve read, the content of the film is very similar, where in Hester Prynne was being accused of adultery because she has an affair with the minister Arthur Dimmesdale when she was found pregnant not by his own husband who has been missing for 3 years, and choose not to reveal the father of his child. When Roger Chillingworth came back to see Hester standing in shame in the front of many people and he prefer to search himself the true father of Hester’s child, he force Hester to speak for what she have done and so Arthur Dimmesdale regret and carries his conscience. Both of them could pass the crime they did only by asking for forgiveness to God.

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