... of identity and society. After Hester is publicly shamed and forced by the people of Boston to wear a badge of humiliation, her unwillingness to leave the town may seem puzzling. She is not physically imprisoned, and leaving the colony would allow her to remove the scarlet letter and resume a normal life elsewhere. So ... Hester choose to stay in a place were she will constantly be reminded my by her past action and "sin?- Most of us today, let society determine our identity. We are constantly behaving or even acting in a way that we want society to perceive us. I believe the world we li...

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... world." Chapter 1, page 34: "She entered the prison-door, - we shall not take upon us to determine finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal- Chapter 2, page 34: " all with their eyes intently fastened on the iron-clamped oaken door ... in the prison-door- Chapter 2, page 36: "The door of the jail being flung open from within, there appeared the grim and grisly presence of the town-beadle, with a sword by his side and his staff of office in his hand. " Chapter 2, page 36: "On the threshold of the prison-door ... ag...

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... placed on her bosom. "That Scarlet Letter, fantastically embroidered and illuminated on her bosom" (p. 47). The women of the town are furious with the way Hester behaves with her scarlet letter. "Why, gossips, what is it but to laugh in the faces of our godly magistrates, and make pride out of what they, worthy gentlemen, meant for punishment?" (p. 47). Even though she ... . She always dresses Pearl in the most colorful clothing of very fine cloth. "Her mother, in contriving the child's garb had allowed the gorgeous tendencies of her imagination their full play; arraying her in crimson v...

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