1. Hester's Heroinism in The Scarlet Letter
Others state Hawthorne was commenting on the laws of the Puritan communities. ... 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). ... Any woman who can provide that for her daughter is a heroine, especially given the beliefs and laws or that time period. ...
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