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The novel, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story that explores the effects of sin and its consequences on the souls of its two main characters, Hester Prynne, (the protagonist), and Arthur Dimmesdale, (her secret lover). In this novel, these two characters were unable to restrain their adulterous tendencies, ultimately ending with the unfortunate consequence of Hester bearing the illegitimate offspring of the love affair, Pearl, as a result. Hester Prynne was the only character that suffered outwardly from this event, because she was ostracized by her Puritan society after their discovery of her adulterous affair. The other party involved, Dimmesdale, was able to uphold his duplicit facade until the end of the novel. Hester remains the social hero throughout the novel in that Hawthorne continues to suggest that a stronger individual can evolve from the tragedies of social hardships. Hester Prynne displayed and wore the lavish and gold embroidered, scarlet "A" upon her bosom with great pride. By wearing the scarlet "A" with pride Hester was conveying the notion that no feelings of guilt lingered around her psyche, instead she felt she was being treated in an unjustly fashion b
"I, your pastor, whom you so reverence and trust, am utterly a pollution and a lie! Over the course of seven years, Hester began to represent strength in the eyes of the townspeople. They saw their gibes had a synergistic affect on her. This was seen clearly through Hester's ability to perceive the scarlet letter as a scandal of the past, and a letter to give her power to donate to the poor, and provide strength to the grief-stricken in the present: "The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, - stern wild ones, -and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss." (Hawthorne 183) By wearing the scarlet letter and growing strong due to the social and moral More than once, Mr. Dimmesdale had gone into the pulpit, with a purpose never to come down its steps until he should have spoken words like that above. More than once, he cleared his throat, and drawn in a long, deep, and tremulous breath, which, when, sent forth again, would come burdened with the black secret of his soul." (Hawthorne 132) "The letter was the symbol of her calling. Such helpfulness was found in her,-so much power to do, power to sympathize,-that many people refused to interpret the scarlet A by its original signification. They said that it meant Able; so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman's strength." (Hawthorne 149) On Election Day Dimmesdale confesses his sin to the public on the scaffold where Hester spectators; but did ever a woman, before this brazen hussy, contrive such a way of
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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