however, take great effort to settle down and become a women of honor again.

Hester Prynne, through the eyes of the Puritans, is an extreme sinner. She has gone against the Puritan ways by committing Adultery. The Puritans believed that Hester was a lost soul that could only be saved by sincere and thorough repentance. For this

irrevocably harsh sin, she must wear a symbol of shame for the rest of her life.

From the beginning, we see that Hester Prynne is a young and beautiful woman who has bought a child into the world with an unknown father. Hester, to the reader, is obviously a woman who has violated a strict social and religious code, but who has sinned in an affirmation of love and life. The Puritans do not take her feelings into account. They are people that take things as being right or wrong. Committing adultery is seen as wrong in the Bible, and therefore Puritans do

are grim, forbidding people. Nonetheless they have a degree of dignity and authority. They lack sympathy and discrimination. In their eyes all crimes are equal.

As time went by, Hester came more in contact with the Puritans of the town. She had come to conform with their belief that redemption would save her soul. She gave her life to God, by visiting the sick and sowing for the poor. She came to be revered by most members of the community because of her actions. The scarlet letter, for many had come to represent able, not adultery. Her strength to satisfy the needs of others and comfort them was a gift many towns people respected. As time went by, Hester was no longer

The Puritan society went as far as to say that the reason that Pearl was such a devilish child was due to her mother's failure to subdue her to the proper Puritan etiquette. Hester is not a Puritan. She did not believe in any of the Puritan ways. She is

only concerned with showing her daughter how to live her life honestly. This did not agree well with the Puritans. The unsuccessfully tried to take Pearl away from Hester. Hester had been deemed unfit to raise the child without the influence of genuine Puritan law and order. Pearl was not taken away and Hester went about trying to raise her child in honesty. This was one of the reasons that Hester did not leave the Puritan community. If she would have ran back to the new world, she would have not been true to herself. She also wore the letter A in stride because she knew that it was part of her. Hester, however, had a very hard time trying to raise Pearl. Pearl continuously mocked authority throughout the novel, a key characteristic of the imp-child's demeanor. She asked her mother would hurt her mother. She would ask about what minister Dimesdale held his hand over his heart. The mockery did not end there, however, and Pearl went about her retarded ways, throwing rocks at ot

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