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«She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterized by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace which is now recognized as its indication. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more ladylike, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison. Those who had before known her, and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped» - this is almost the first description of the main heroin that the reader gets. Hester Prynne isn’t dispirited by the grave crime that she is claimed with. She is doing her way to the scaffold with the high lifted head and confident look. But why? Didn’t she committed an adultery act, that came to light to all the society she had lived in? Didn’t she give birth to......

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