In the “Scarlet Letter” novel, the plot takes place in an early New England colony, mid-17th century at Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was the best called name for the Puritan community of Boston in which is also part of the setting. The author Nathaniel Hawthorne mentions many settings in the novel, including the wilderness, custom-house, prison door and the town scaffold. The town scaffold is the place that sets off the novel’s beginning, middle, and end. It’s also where the most exciting scenes of the story happen that makes the reader willing to conclude the plot. The residents of Boston during the time were strictly religious and pure. Alongside religion, law and order shaped these people back in the mid-1800s
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In the novel, the scaffold in Boston is where the main characters stand before the residents of Boston. The town scaffold is the place in the novel where the story’s drama happens, where characters come at one place and further progress the storyline. All the main characters will each face a different fate at the last scaffold scene. They all thrive on something important to them and they’ll either gain it or lose it. The scaffold scenes are all powerful and large to be expressed in multiple chapters to create more drama around what’s going on. There are a total of three scaffold scenes in the book, where each of them can provide evidence that “The Scarlet Letter” is really one of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s best written novels. Whenever coming across a scaffold scene, the reader keeps a balanced touch between the story elements upon reading. Whatever happens at the town scaffold in the story gives you enough suspense to continue reading …show more content…
In fact, Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804 where it descends from Puritan settlers. Being of Puritan descent has haunted him throughout his life and even informed him writing. He’s had appointments at the Boston Custom House where he met his wife Sophia Peabody, and that place particularly place is used as the introduction for the novel. It was also here where Hawthorne found an unopened package on a desk that served no interest. In the package was something that caught his eye: a scarlet-colored capital letter “A” and material testaments to use for the plot of the novel itself, even revealed in the final chapter that the story is a legend. It even mentioned Hester Prynne, who in fact was a personage of ancestors and quite popular during late 17th century Massachusetts. It is at this moment of his life where Hawthorne got an idea for a new novel to write
In the novel, the scaffold in Boston is where the main characters stand before the residents of Boston. The town scaffold is the place in the novel where the story’s drama happens, where characters come at one place and further progress the storyline. All the main characters will each face a different fate at the last scaffold scene. They all thrive on something important to them and they’ll either gain it or lose it. The scaffold scenes are all powerful and large to be expressed in multiple chapters to create more drama around what’s going on. There are a total of three scaffold scenes in the book, where each of them can provide evidence that “The Scarlet Letter” is really one of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s best written novels. Whenever coming across a scaffold scene, the reader keeps a balanced touch between the story elements upon reading. Whatever happens at the town scaffold in the story gives you enough suspense to continue reading …show more content…
In fact, Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804 where it descends from Puritan settlers. Being of Puritan descent has haunted him throughout his life and even informed him writing. He’s had appointments at the Boston Custom House where he met his wife Sophia Peabody, and that place particularly place is used as the introduction for the novel. It was also here where Hawthorne found an unopened package on a desk that served no interest. In the package was something that caught his eye: a scarlet-colored capital letter “A” and material testaments to use for the plot of the novel itself, even revealed in the final chapter that the story is a legend. It even mentioned Hester Prynne, who in fact was a personage of ancestors and quite popular during late 17th century Massachusetts. It is at this moment of his life where Hawthorne got an idea for a new novel to write