Setting is an important factor when it comes to telling any kind of story. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story is that of four main settings. The Governors Mansion, the prison, the platform, and the woods. He uses these places to further exaggerate the tale of the main characters, Arthur Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne, and Roger Chillingworth. Each place has a different meaning and emotional significance to a character. The words in the book give imagery to the …showed first 75 words of 1432 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1432 total…of Massachusetts. The novel, opens with a prison setting, foreshadowing the future seclusion, gloominess and condemnation of the protagonists. The scenes shift around Boston with such places like the Governor’s and Hester’s house. The crucial platform scenes are set in the market place, while the decisive meeting of Hester and Dimmesdale is set in the forest. The settings are of crucial importance because all major decisions on the novel were made in them.