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Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'Adultery' in the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her life. How can she ever escape from this public shame ? What will happen to her child, and what will happen to her sinful lover - the father of her child ?