The Scarlet Letter
Across
- 2. medical practitioner
- 5. Viewed as strict, repressive, and judgemental. English Protestants who believed that the reforms of the church didn't go far enough.
- 6. a woman who has committed adultery
- 11. A male priest or religious leader
- 13. A leech that was in his early years married to hester
- 14. A Puritan minister, he has fathered an illegitimate child, Pearl, with Hester Prynne and considers himself unable to reveal his sin
Down
- 1. a wooden framework with holes for the head and hands, in which an offender was imprisoned and exposed to public abuse.
- 3. a woman condemned by her Puritan neighbors for having a child out of wedlock.
- 4. a womans chest
- 5. Daughter of Hester and Dimmesdale
- 7. Bostons elder clergyman
- 8. public shame or disgrace
- 9. kingdom and its capital city in ancient Mesopotamia
- 10. Governor of massachusetts bay colony
- 12. A woman in position of authority or control