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The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Attitudes
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Throughout Nathaniel Hawthorne's book The Scarlet Letter, Hester's
attitudes toward her adultery are ambivalent. This ambivalence is shown by
breaking the book into three different parts. In each part her attitudes
change significantly.
Hester starts by seeing her act as a sin that she i ....
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....aying is that
"There dwelt, there trod the feet of one with whom she deemed herself
connected in a union, that, unrecognized on earth, would bring them
together before the bar of final judgment, and make their that marriage
altar, for a joint futurity of endless retribution" (84). This comment
means that the real reason for her staying is that Reverend Dimmsdale, the
father of her child, lives there and she hopes to someday marry him.
Hester believes that her adultery was a sin, but the book m.... |
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