A reverend has sex with a married woman and denies the baby of his own for seven years. Sounds like a sitcom on FOX, but it is the plot of The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. If Hawthorne intended us to read this novel solely based on plot, he would not have written it. He is a romantic, believing in strong emotions that contradicted those of the rationalist views of thought and logic. The …showed first 75 words of 1378 total…

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