... grown up, her personality changed greatly after the labeling of her sin, adultery. Hester's town was very strict with the punishment of sins and the citizens frowned upon many things. Public displays of a person's crime were common. Some may think that the simple task of wearing a scarlet letter is no big deal, but try to ... ; she did not want her love to be punished, she wanted him to get the strength to do it himself, or she knew that the punishment of the sin sitting and eating away at his heart would be enough. Either way the fact that she could not express her affection for Arthur ....

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• Grade Level: High School

... looks of disapproval. Several of the women begin to discuss Hester Prynne, and soon vow that Hester would not have received such a light sentence for her crime if they had been the judges. One woman, the ugliest of the group, goes so far as to advocate death for Hester. Hester emerges from the ... Amsterdam. Hester fearfully clutches Pearl harder, and again causes her child to cry out in pain. Roger Chillingworth asks a bystander who Hester is and what her crime was. The man informs him of her past, telling how she was sent to Boston to await her husband, and how she ended up with a ch...

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• Grade Level: High School