... woman who should not have been allowed to hold onto the custody of a child. She clearly was not the right person to raise Pearl and this is obvious in the way that Pearl acts. Pearl is a child unlike anything other in the city of Salem - she is undoubtedly crazy. Pearl was thought to be a demon by her unusual ... mom would face would be immense. It is obviously hard enough to take care of a child between two parents so imagine the difficulty Hester had raising Pearl. Pearl would have been better taken care of if she was taken from Hester. Hester might have been better off for her own ....

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... . Dimmesdale's guilt begins to increase as time goes on, and his physical heart condition is worsening. The more guilt and shame he feels the more Chillingworth is convinced that he is the father of Pearl. The end of chapter ten marks a pivotal moment in which it seems that he has discovered something that gives proof to his suspicions. Chillingworth is persistently trying to use his ... like he would be letting everyone down by admitting what he did. He puts the community before himself and Hester, which shows a lot about his character. He is punishing himself for the sake of others. Pe...

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... Art Deco Figurines."" (377) This point shows how women were viewed as objects, furniture if you will. Then they would further the abuse by placing upper class in women in a "pearl necklace and her hat- (377) "then place lower class women in advertisements where they would seem, "squat, [neck ... less], and beefy (377)."" The comparisons were considered so extreme that it would catch a person off guard. Why was this being done ... in 1928 that only 17 percent of all American women were both "slender- and over 5 feet 3 inches in height."" (377) Did this accentuate the pestilence of subor...

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... As time and culture changed, so does philosophy. Thus any person of sense will see that justice cannot be absolute since it changed with the times. Each culture has developed a different idea of perfect justices to meet their own individual needs. Since more then one form of absolute ... cannot exist, thus absolute justice does not exist. Rather for each individual society justice is like beauty that it is in the eye of the beholder. Here presented the other case against absolute justice. Their arguments made that absolute justice can be derived from nature. Without questions nature holds...

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