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Morality In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

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After the Hester last talking with Mr. Dimmesdale, She was shocked since heard that the condition of clergyman reduce. His nerve seems be break, his morality force has been reduce even week than the child. It at a low level on the ground, even caused his intelligent was still at the origin force or it even get a kind of morbid energy, and even it will just give them. And she know that except her righteousness of conscience exists, there is a terrible machine be taken in to Dimmesdale’s quilt and peaceful life, and it still working. Knowing what is the man of sin used be like, her whole soul was be moved by his fearing, he require to her-that woman who was be left, for supposes he find the enemy. Besides, she decided he has right to get her aid. Hester living in the world of isolation, hardly use any things to think her right and wrong idea, she see that, or seems seeing, there is a responsible on her shoulders, it’s point the clergyman，she don’t have others and even not belong t the world. The things connect she and others is flower silk gold and others object, but all be break. This is a crime chain , he and she can’t break it. Like others relationship , it bring it’ s duty. At now Hester’s situation, is total different between since she was be insult’s time we see. Time come and go, …show more content…

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