The Scarlet Letter characters
Hester Prynne is the protagonist of the novel. She is the mother of Pearl. Because of having some relationships with city minister and later having a baby with him she needs to wear a red letter ‘A’ which has to be a reminder of her shame. Hester is married to Roger Chillingworth, with...
Arthur Dimmesdale is a very honored and respected politician in Boston. He has a daughter Pearl. How he did it without a wide? Easily. When Hester’s husband moves to Amsterdam having some work there, she met Arthur, and they have some adult relationships. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately...
Who is that guy? Is he a real guy by the way? Do you have any associations? In this novel a name Black Man in a nickname for the real devil. People know and keep telling legends about him. One of the most popular is that a Black Man inhabits the dark and scary woods. He forces people to write...
General Miller is the oldest inhabitant of the Customs House. A place was all interesting things happen. By the way, while reading, we imagine everything and reading about this place we feel very calm and old smell. General is very independent, and no everybody wants to argue with him. What allows...
Here we come to the very interesting person of Richard Bellingham. He served in our real life as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Probably exactly because of him, we see that this story could be real. As a character, he doesn’t have a very big role or a huge amount of words, but his...
John Wilson doesn’t have many lines in a book. But we will tell you at least that information which we know. He is the eldest clergyman in Boston, a great scholar, a friend of Arthur Dimmesdale, and like most of the people in this profession, and he is a man of kind and genial spirit. This...
When we hear the word ‘inspector’ we immediately realize mean and corrupted person who is caring only about himself, and don’t like paying attention to the problems of other people. And this Inspector isn’t an exception from rules. He is mean, not very smart but with a good...
This character appears in the novel for not so many times to know and remember something special about him. Nevertheless, we know that he is a very old, even ancient surveyor of the Customs House. He seems to be kind, independent man with strong spirit. He likes helping people without demanding...
Mistress is the sister of Governor Bellingham. After the novel's events, she is killed for being a witch. She repeatedly comes to the forest at night to find someone or something evil. She's constantly trying to get people to come and walk with her. By the way, Anne Hibbins was a real...