He transfers this joy into the torture he plays against Dimmesdale, "Never did mortal suffer what this man has sufferd" (191). ... The townspeople, who represent the Puritan society, play a decisive role as the second antagonist in the story. ... They were degraded by everybody, starting at a young age children were taught to prevent contact with those sinners, "As the two wayfares came within the precincts of the town, the children of the puritans looked up from their play, - or what passed for play with those sombre little urchins, - and spake gravely one to another: ...

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It is our Hester- the town's Hester ." (111). ... For instance, we see Hawthorne's compassion toward Hester at a point in the play when Reverend Wilson said, " A great red letter in the sky,-a letter A,- which we interpret to stand for Angel." ...

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