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The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Alienation
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Throughout his book The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne is preoccupied
with the relationship between the individual and society. Hester's sin and
subsequent condemnation alienate her. No where is this alienation more
apparent than in Chapter 5, "Hester at her Needle". Condemned by her sin
of pa ....
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....fforts of her art", which she would enjoy, she employs in
"making coarse garments for the poor" in order to repent for her sin.
Hester's "own dress was of the coarsest materials and most sombre hue."
Through her sewing, the wretched outcast makes enough money to live in a
good deal of luxury but she feels she does not deserve it. She sought
not to acquire anything beyond subsistence, of the plainest and most
ascetic description." All her "superfluous means" were "bestowed… in
charity," g.... |
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