Hester Prynne overcomes the stigma of adultery to emerge as the first great heroine in American literature. Hawthorne's themes, the nature of sin, social hypocrisy, and community repression, still ...

View HESTER PRYNNE (From THE SCARLET LETTER) (1847 - 1922) By Frank Hector Tompkins; Oil on canvas; 36 1/2 x 28 in. (92.7 x 71.1 cm.) Frame: 46 x 39 in. (116.8 x 99.1 cm.); Signed; . Access more ...

Just shy of 175 years ago, Hester Prynne secured a primo spot in literary history. Arguably, thanks to school curricula and films such as Easy A, Hester remains a familiar name. In The Scarlet Letter, ...

An irreverent exhumation of one of America's oldest scandals - it's The Scarlet Letter like you've never seen it before. Hester Prynne has fallen from grace but worst yet the unruly teenage minds ...

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Hawthorne’s most famous novel—a mainstay on high school reading lists—has been the subject of some interesting myths and ...

Moore stars as Hester Prynne, with Gary Oldman as the minister and Robert Duvall as Hester’s husband. The Scarlet Letter is laughably bad, largely because of Demi Moore’s terrible performance. In what ...

SYNOPSIS: Two years after her husband goes missing, intelligent, strong-willed Hester Prynne has a child and gets branded an adulteress. Further defying Puritan ideals, she refuses to reveal the ...

The story is a retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic tale of Puritan society, “The Scarlet Letter” — Cardi’s is set in a modern Presbyterian church community in Virginia.

Set in Salem, Massachusetts, in the early 1800s, “Hester” by Laurie Lico Albanese imagines the inspiration behind Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.” “Hester” is told from ...

Of course, that’s not why Hester Prynne wore the brand in the book. So, during Wednesday night’s “A Closer Look,” Meyers immediately called out Mace’s understanding of the novel.

The eponymous letter in the book is forced upon protagonist Hester Prynne, a recent arrival to the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony who has a baby despite her husband being presumed dead back in ...