The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne captures the stringent social structure of the Renaissance Period, but was written in The Romanticism Era which ushered in the Enlightenment Period. This exercise allows students to analyze the social constructs of the era. Themes such as: allegory, adultery, and alphabetization assist students to demonstrate comprehension of text, identify character traits, and make inferences and draw conclusions based upon textual evidence.