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The Many Dissensions of Hester Prynne


Throughout the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne we see the protagonist, Hester Prynne being constantly bombarded with conflict. From the beginning we see her embedded in these deep conflicts that define and shape her life. With their being so many conflicts in this novel, its source cannot just be singular. It must be from many different angles and sides that this conflict arouses from. In this essay I will be discussing the antagonists that plague Hester which are Society, Roger Chillingworth, and her own Pearl.
“Thus she will be a living sermon against sin” (60) were the fateful words spoken by Roger Chillingworth in the marketplace. This was the general feeling of the populace, that she would be a living, breathing billboard of sin. Thus she was mocked and scorned. To be made the subject of many sermons as the narrator points out that, “If she entered a church trusting to share the Sabbath smile of the Universal Father, it......

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