Scarlet Letter
... ’ It should, however, be noted that Hawthorne did name the novel the ‘Scarlet Letter’ and not the ‘Scarlet Woman.’ The scholar who has done the most to alert us to the importance of ‘revolutions abroad’ in the text of the Scarlet Letter and who has most thoroughly discussed Hawthorne’s readings in European History comes to the conclusion that the narrator disapproves of Hester when she challenges the social order of the community and the spiritual order of the universe. ... She is not physically imprisoned, and leaving the Massachusetts Bay Colony would allow her to remove the scarlet letter and