It is evident from the passage that the narrator expresses that women are powerful and strong. The narrator explains that women are strong by using Hester as a model. Hester has been through being branded with the scarlet letter, "All the light and graceful foliage of her character had been withered

up by this red-hot brand, and long ago fallen away..." (40). Although having to live though the torment of this ordeal she still pushed on and lived her life as she deemed fit. The narrator then goes on to say "If she survive the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or - and the outward semblance the same, -- crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more." (30). However with strength Hester does survive and still retains her tenderness through her compassion for the poor and her love for Arthur Dimmesdale.

Respect for Hester and women, is what the narrator is trying to express in a broad sense. All these details build up to one argument that is; these women deserve to be respected. The women are powerful and strong and co

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