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

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The Scarlet letter is an American novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne; the novel is about Hester Prynne. A young woman who moved to Boston a Puritan’s settlement which Hester lived there for a long period of time without her husband. As she waits for her husband’s arrival she falls in love with reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, which later leads them to commit adultery. Later, Hester becomes pregnant and since she lived in strict religious Puritan’s state they punished her for her sin after discovering her pregnancy. Hester was sent to prison and she was forced to wear a Scarlet letter “A” on her chest for the rest of her life as a symbol of her sin. Throughout the novel, the reader will discover the manifestation of symbolism, for example the Scarlet letter
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