ACT ONE
Why do you think Miller chooses to open the
play after the excitement of the girls dancing in
the forest? What larger point could he be
'making by starting with Parris
praying over Betty?

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.