... her teachers, - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss" (136). Hester Prynne, who is the main character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, is the subject of this quote. She is sent ahead by her husband in England to settle in the colonies. He ... , childish quarrels, and the little domestic traits of her maiden years, came swarming back upon her- (43). This quote establishes lighter side to Hester's character that is built upon in the following paragraph. "She saw again her native village in Old England, and her paternal home She saw her ...

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... Hester Prynne, the principle character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, a married woman whose husband was long away, gave birth to a daughter in her town of Cornhill, she was clearly identified as a sinner. As soon as her sin became public knowledge, she was punished for being an adulterer. And ... a short period in jail, three hours of public humiliation on the scaffold, and the requirement of wearing a scarlet letter "A" on her chest for the rest of her life, serving as "a living sermon against sin" (Hawthorne 69). After confessing her sin and accepting the punishment, Hester ...

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... of her affection towards Dimmesdale. The Scarlet letter was put upon Hester's chest to claim her ungodliness but instead the consequences served as a way for Hester to grow stronger. Hester's soul is freed by her admission of her crime; by enduring her earthly punishment. Right from the start, Hester ... previously noticed, and which grew still the more obvious to sight, the oftener they looked upon him." Judging others completely changes Chillingworth's character rather than Dimmesdale or anyone else in the village. He later on vanishes because his revenge has consumed him and made him ...

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