Summary and Analysis - 'The Scarlet Letter'

In this video by Thug Notes we summise and analyse The Scarlet Letter, an 1850 romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.