Proxy Fight When Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel The Scarlet Letter is read by modern Americans, it tends to provoke snickers, sneering, and judgmental tut-tutting at those awful Puritan ...

In 1666 in the Massachusetts Bay colony, Puritans and the Algonquian have ... day Hester is publicly humiliated and made to wear a scarlet letter, her husband appears after a year with Indians.

"The Scarlet Letter" is deadly serious but impossible ... Hester and Arthur live happily ever after escaping from the Puritans as they're being slaughtered by the Algonquian natives.

WireImage Moore played the ‘scandalous” Puritan Hester Prynne in the big ... who produced “The Scarlet Letter,” told Moore she was a “popcorn actress.” But Joffe said he had never ...