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Scarlet Letter Virtues

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Virtues & Sins in The Scarlet Letter

Hester Prynne, the protagonist, is committed to move forward in life with her daughter Pearl. Society saw the big letter printed on her clothing and wanted Prynne to make more products.
But before this happened, society has really hated her for committing the biggest sin, as known as her daughter Pearl. Prynne’s husband is ashamed therefore Hester takes the blame and goes through many difficulties in life. Once everything starts getting into action Hester becomes a strong independent women, not for herself, but for her daughter Pearl. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester represents social feminist ideas of a sinner, an object, a victim, and an independent woman.

Being a sinner, commits an inadequate image of herself in Massachusetts Bay Colony in Boston & in life itself. Hester Loves her daughter Pearl because she is the person for who she is now. Pearl is Hester’s most delighted & essential treasure. “She would become the general symbol at which the preacher and moralist might point, and in which they might vivify and embody the images of a woman’s frailty and sinful passion.” (Hawthorne 66). Hester is wanting to let the world or society around her know that Pearl will never be a sin to her, but something treasurable that was given to her. To the people of Boston, Hester will be considered as a sinner because she committed the crime of having a child with a preacher. Therefore, Hester would not ever want to change her ways of whom she has

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