... solely for her child. These conflicts concerned Hester because they all involved her in some way. They affected the community because adultery was a sin due to their religion; and because law was attached, at the head, to religion. They had set the laws and Hester had broken one. All this and yet Hawthorne is not done, his manipulation of the points ... tone express the impact of Hester's crime on herself, her family and the townspeople. Her reputation as a deviant had marked her for life and made the Puritans worry about themselves, morality and their own social values. Hawthorne's use...

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... us, and it would be very difficult to stamp it out of our society and culture. That, however, is a feat the Puritans tried to accomplish. They are "blamed" for "overrating morality" to the point in which they completely "suppressed art" (Hoffman 53). But art is something that even the firmest controls cannot always contain. Hester Prynne, heroine of the Nathaniel Hawthorne ... but tragic. Hester Prynne, having been sent to New England ahead of her husband, was condemned by her society because of her attempts to break free of the rigid Puritanical law-system by finding sexual pleasure wi...

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