Hester's Isolation and Alienation in The Scarlet Letter In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale have committed adultery, an unacceptable sin during the Puritan times. ... Having a heart blinded by love Hester choose to stay in the town and wear the scarlet letter "A" instead of revealing the other adulterer. ... Assuming the encounters with the scarlet letter would have some kind of effect of immunity was quite the opposite of what truly happened. ... Small children would sneak up to catch a glimpse of the sca...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the books "Wuthering Heights", "The Scarlet Letter", and "The Count of Monte Cristo" characters are all enraged and begin to dig their enemy's grave. ... Toward the end of the novel, he has completed his revenge, but he remains unsettled. ...

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Hester Prynne, the leading character of The Scarlet Letter, and Edna Pontellier of The Awakening, are both women with striking similarities and distinctions. ... Hester first lost her independence to the letter "A" stitched on her chest by the puritans and this left her unable love, but gradually as she became more independent of the culture and her emotions overran her she realized that she must be with Arthur. ... Edna needs her independence to become and individual because without complete freedom or independence one can not completely know themselves fully and become a true individual and ...

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