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The Role Of Hester Prynne In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

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Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne was a very gorgeous and strong woman, her goal was to make something out of herself even with the shame that she brought upon herself for committing adultery by having a child with another man while she was married to another man. What she did was a huge abomination in the 1600s, in the Puritan community of Salem, Massachusetts. Hester’s goal was to use her inborn talent sewing, what we would now call a seamstress to transform the meaning of her punishment and give her a better name in the community. And at the play they did an awesome job showing it, all the women and men who used to say horrible things about her were now praising her for her talent and how she was the best at it.

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