What is orwell ridiculing in this passage

Who else did the prussian soldiers interact with other characters?

Read this excerpt from the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne and complete the sentence that follows. she had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate. the author uses the point of view in the excerpt.

What character asks for god's mercy on the lady at the end of the poem? arthur lancelot the poem's speaker the reaper