A Character Analysis of Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter Abstract Hester Prynne is the main protagonist and the most complicated character in The Scarlet Letter. ... Among them, The Scarlet Letter has been casting into the limelight. ... Out of the magistrates' mercy, she was not condemned to death for her crime against society and Puritanism, but had to stand on the scaffold for several hours so that the townspeople may see her, the three-month little Pearl and especially the cloth scarlet letter "A" which she wears on her bosom. ... However, this scarlet letter does not flee fro...

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Most people know him only for his work The Scarlet Letter, but there is much more to this man than just one book. ... In 1819 his mother sent him back to Salem to study. ... It wasn't until his most famous book, The Scarlet Letter, that his literary career picked up again. ... Published in 1851, at the time it was better received than The Scarlet Letter. ... He had an upstanding moral character that guided him through all of his achievements and his downfalls. ...

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