Hester Prynne had to wear a red letter "A" for "adultery" (it was her sin).
Hester actually wears the Scarlet Letter from the day she is put on the scaffold until she possibly goes to Europe and takes it off, then she comes back alone and returns to her old house and puts the letter back on, in its place on her bosom Hester is supposed to wear the scarlet letter for the rest of her life. She does take it off for a brief moment in the forest when she meets Reverend Dimmesdale. Then she takes it off when she goes to Europe to start a new life. However, she feels she must punish herself for her crime so she goes back to Boston and re-wears the scarlet letter.
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Hester Prynne had to wear a red letter "A" for "adultery" (it was her sin).
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A Scarlet Letter 'A'.
Hester Prynne was sentenced to wear The Scarlet Letter in 1642 by the Puritan leaders in the Massachusetts Bay Colony after being found guilty of committing adultery.
Hester Prynne is the character who is ashamed and hated by the community at the beginning of "The Scarlet Letter" for committing adultery and bearing a child out of wedlock. She is made to wear a scarlet letter 'A' as a symbol of her sin.
Hester Prynne had to wear the scarlet letter "A" in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" as a punishment for committing adultery. She was publicly shamed and ostracized by the puritanical society in which she lived.
No, Hester does not remove the Scarlet Letter "A" that she is made to wear as a punishment for her adultery. She continues to wear it as a symbol of her sin and eventual redemption throughout the novel.
The character who wore the scarlet letter in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel is Hester Prynne. She wears the scarlet letter "A" as a symbol of her sin of adultery and it becomes a central part of her identity throughout the story.
In "The Scarlet Letter," Roger Chillingworth is the protagonist Hester Prynne's estranged husband who arrives in the colony years after she was publicly shamed and forced to wear the scarlet letter 'A' for adultery. He seeks revenge on Hester's lover, Arthur Dimmesdale, and becomes consumed by bitterness and obsession.
She must wear a scartlet letter on her chest, and she must stand on the scaffold for three hours.
In the book, The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is sentenced to wear the red letter, A. This marks her as an adulterer, for sleeping with the pastor Arthur Dimmesdale.
The punishment given to Hester Prynne in "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is to wear a scarlet "A" on her chest for committing adultery. This punishment is meant to publicly shame and ostracize her from society, in line with the Puritan beliefs of the time.