Name: Reena Khasatiya Sem -3 Mail Id – khasatiyamili21@gmail.com Paper no. 10 American Literature Total words- 1726 Plagiarism - 59% To evulate my assignment Click Here Topic - Scarlet Letter as Story of ‘Sin’ Index: Introduction, storyline of Novel, Hester’s portrait, Real sinner, connection with Eve, connection with Sita, Society as sinner, Conclusion. • Introduction Scarlet Letter is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpiece. It is iconic fable of guilt and redemption set in Puritan Massachusetts. It has long been considered one of the greatest American novels. The story of Hester Prynne—found out in adultery, pilloried by her Puritan community, and abandoned, in different ways, by both her partner in sin and her vengeance-seeking husband—possesses a reality heightened by Hawthorne’s sympathy and his unmixed devotion to his supposedly fallen but fundamentally innocent heroine. The Scarlet Letter rightly deserves its stature as the first great novel written by an American