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Since the beginning of the novel, the scarlet letter transformed Hester. ... Many people regarded the scarlet letter “A” to mean “Able,” rather than its original meaning. ... Now, “she laid her finger on the scarlet letter, and passed on. ... She had “assumed a freedom of speculation, then common enough on the other side of the Atlantic, but which our forefathers, had they known it, would have held to be a deadlier crime than that stigmatized by the scarlet letter. ... ” Hester has been strengthened by the scarlet letter. ... The author states that the scarlet letter had been her “passport into regions where other women dare not tread. ... ” The scarlet letter had made her stronger, but made her slightly too confident which is why he had lost his sympathy for her. ... Hester had thrown away the scarlet letter, so she was very much relieved. ... “He stood, at this moment, on the very proudest eminence of superiority to which gifts of intellect, rich lore, prevailing eloquence, and a reputation of whitest sanctity…Meanwhile Hester Prynne was standing beside the scaffold of the pillory, with the scarlet letter still burning on her breast! ... This society does “sometimes uphold his character, when proofs, clear as the midday sunshine on the scarlet letter, establish him a false and sin-stained creature of the dust” because of its “childlike loyalty which the age awarded to its rulers. ... She had used her undue punishment of the scarlet letter as a way to strengthen herself and became a better person for it.
Approximate Word count = 2000
Approximate Pages = 8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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