Hester, who has grown up in Europe, does not see eye to eye with the Puritans; they are angered by her beauty, and feel that her punishment is not sufficient for the nature of the crime. ... She believes that the sin has a consecration of its own (Hull). ... Another positive force that the sin has had on Hester is that she is now able to see the hidden sin in others. ... At the end of the story Nathaniel Hawthorne shows that sin had a positive affect on Hester when she returns to Boston, even though she does not have to do so. ... In the setting of the tale, Brown would fall under the Half...

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Because she dealt with her sin upfront, and didn't try to hide it, unlike Dimmesdale, she is rewarded with an early repentance of forgiveness. ... She is able to start a new because in a way she has forgiven herself along with her town. By Hester publicly repenting for her sin, she earns a certain respect from her peers. ... Dimmesdale's effect of his sin has caused him a lifetime full of painful sickness that would have been forgotten, just like Hester's was only if he would have told the truth. ... "To Hester's eye, the Reverend Mr. ...

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The Scarlet Letter is chock full of symbolism. ... Pearl's image is a reminder of Hester's sin, "Once this freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eyes while Hester was looking at her own image in them. . . . she fancied that she beheld, not her own miniature portrait, but another face, in the small black mirror of Pearl's eye. It was a face, fiendlike, full of smiling malice, yet bearing the resemblance of features that she had known full well, through seldom with a smile, and never with malice in them." ... In chapter fourteen by the ocean, Pearl "came to a full stop,...

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The Scarlet Letter To the naked eye, the story of The Scarlet Letter appears to just be a well-written love story within a puritan society full of unexpected flips and turns. ... Although the strictly religious community was full of straightedge, godly people, they also contributed to Hawthorne's theme of revenge. ... She returned an almost evil smile; proud of what she had done, taunting them. ... She was fully aware of the minister's strengths and weaknesses; therefore she knew that confessing that he was her partner would be an easy way out for him. ... She became so skil...

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The Scarlet Letter To the naked eye, the story of The Scarlet Letter appears to just be a well-written love story within a puritan society full of unexpected flips and turns. ... Although the strictly religious community was full of straightedge, godly people, they also contributed to Hawthorne's theme of revenge. ... She returned an almost evil smile; proud of what she had done, taunting them. ... She was fully aware of the minister's strengths and weaknesses; therefore she knew that confessing that he was her partner would be an easy way out for him. ... She became so skill...

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Nature's beauty comes through "the plastic power of the human eye" which lets us appreciate natural things "in and for themselves" yet it also finds "correspondences" which translate the landscape into human meaning ("Particular natural facts are symbols of particular spiritual facts"). ... She also transcribed Alcott's "Conversations with Children on the Gospels" which was published one year later. ... She used Emerson's doctrine of self-trust to examine the women's condition in the 19th century. She advocated women rights in her "Women in the Nineteeth Century". ...

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