In colonial New England, beautiful, young Hester Pryne bears a child although her husband is presumed lost at sea.
As she transforms the badge of shame into a symbol of freedom, Hawthorne\'s dramatic masterpiece envisions an authentic relation between the sexes--and a different way of imagining love, sin, and redemption--that can form the basis for America\'s radical project of a true democracy..
She refuses to name the father and is condemned to wear a Scarlet "A" and live as an outcast.
In colonial New England, beautiful, young Hester Pryne bears a child although her husband is presumed lost at sea