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In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne lives in seclusion with her daughter Pearl. Hester has been shunned from Puritan society and now lives in the shelter of the wilderness. The clear contrast between Puritan society and life in the wilderness intensify the all too similar fight between light and darkness and ultima ....
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.... as the perfect humans within the garden. Those people who, like Adam and Eve, become sinful “must be scourged out of the town” and then “driven with stripes into the shadows of the forest.” (pg. 46) Citizens not fit to live in the “paradise” of Boston were cast out into the shadow of the forest. Yet it is in the forest that Hester is actually in the light and can see for herself, the truth.
Living in the wilderness, Hester Prynne is able to see the light of truth, as none in Puritan society can. The Puritans have punished Hester for her sin and she i ....
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