"It may seem marvellous, that, with the world before her,[ ] " free to return to her birthplace, or to any other European land, and there hide her character and identity under a new exterior, as completely as if emerging into another state of being,""and having also the passes of the dark, inscrutable forest open to her, where the wildness of her nature might assimilate itself with a people whose customs and life were alien from the law that had condemned her,""it may seem marvellous, that this woman should still call that place her home, where, and where only, she must needs be...

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Other than the scarlet letter, she was a very moral woman whose only joy in life was her daughter Pearl. ... Symbols Wild Rose Bush: Located just outside the prison door, it is the only sign of life near the prison, and has a single red blossom on it.The rose may serve, let us hope, to symbolise some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow?.... * When thinking about Dimmesdale's opposite public and private reactions to her and Hester, Pearl calls Dimmesdalea strange, sad man.? ...

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