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Hester Prynne: Learning And Changing
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Hester Prynne is as ripe a protagonist as any for learning and changing throughout the course of a novel. She is a new mother and a publicly condemned and ostracized woman in a highly moral and tight knit Puritan community. Her very position in life, first child in hand and scarlet letter on bos ....
Middle of essay ....self." (111) Years of thought (which estrangement from society made room for and forced upon her) reinforced for Hester the value of truth "I who the scarlet letter has disciplined in truth, though it be the truth of a red-hot iron, entering into the soul..." (173), and also inspired Hester to speculate on the nature and value of her society's mores. She is able to look as if from a foreigner's point of view at the institutions of her culture, and "[t]he tendency of her fate and fortunes had be.... |
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