... mission of divine and mysterious truth should be confided to a woman stained with sin. (Hawthorne 185) As we see from this passage, no matter what Hester has done, despite her courage and her independent spirit, despite the fact that she ultimately claims the dreaded "A" as her own badge of honor, she is still seen as the evil woman. Also, despite Hawthorne ... doomed for a life full of sadness and misery. Rather than celebrating the courageousness and independence of Hester Prynne, it serves as a reminder that women seem to be bound by a higher moral code than men are....

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... , to emphasize different aspects of the work. In the novel "The Scarlet Letter", the author Nathaniel Hawthorn's depiction of the two male characters, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth, emphasizes the moral problems of the seventeenth century puritan society. Hence, their different characters contribute vitally to the plot of the novel. Arthur Dimmesdale, the Reverent and the protagonists" lover, was not a very ... the pain in his heart and also got to kiss his daughter Pearl whom he never got to kiss, hence, at the end of the novel, the latter character musters courage and loses...

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