1. Hester's Heroinism in The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne wrote in a biography of Anne Hutchinson that "Woman's intellect should never give the tone to that of man; and even her morality is not exactly the material for masculine virtue" (qtd. in Murfin, 275). ... Leland Person, who is a male feminist, talks about how Hawthorne was demonstrating males" constant need to want to have control over women and master them. ...
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