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A Beautiful Sin
The Puritan society molded itself and created a government based upon the Bible and implemented it with force. The crime of adultery committed by Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter, produced rage, and was suitable for serious punishment according to Puritan beliefs. In due course the town of Boston became intensely involved with Hester's life and her crime of adultery, and saw to it that she be publicly punished and tortured. Based upon the religious, governmental, and social design of the Puritan society, Hester's complete existence revolved around her sin and the Puritan discernment. Therefore it is apparent within The Scarlet Letter that the Puritan community to some degree has constructed Hester's character. Throughout The Scarlet Letter Hester is the character that is altered. Hester alters three different times, from being a shamed woman to a capable women and then to a healer.

Hester Prynne emerges from the prison, proud......

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