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The Quartet Behind The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne had many different characters in his novel The Scarlet Letter, but very few of them are actually put
to use. In fact, only four of them really count. They are Hester Prynne, Pearl, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger
Chillingworth. They all have t ....
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.... with society (Axelson 77). However, her needlework
fascinated many people and was fashionable among the upper ranks of the Puritans (Newberry 5). Yet she feels that she
has been taken advantage of by Chillingworth, who makes her keep his identity secret while he searches for the one who
sinned with Hester (Axelson 80). Her response to this is one of the determining factors of the end of the story.
Pearl, born in the Salem jail, was the daughter of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, a well respected Puritan priest.
She is not that important to the outcome of ....
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