The Importance Of Courage In The Scarlet Letter

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This story happened about 200 years ago in Boston. It tells the story of love between three people. The punishment of the woman. Hester Prynne and her husband. Who claimed to Roger Chillingworth. He is an old man and a doctor deformity. Hester did not love him. Another man was a young minister, Dimmesdale, who has a high position ministers and respected among his people in the town. Hister and Dyer love one another. But their love is forbidden during that time. It is sinful. For this reason, Hester is punished by society in her chest, which is considered to be evil, but a letter A. In this novel, the main line seems to be around the letters A Hester is the courage to face the truth. She always had a kind of courage mentality. She …show more content…
If she only tenderness, she will die. If she dies of tenderness for her charitable deeds .Hester and quiet humility earned scorn from the community on probation. In a letter on behalf of her chest to her work on earth, always helping others, we do not expect any thanks. Do not post, if this scarlet letter left her chest. The public is no longer, as the letter as a punishment, but on behalf of her great strength and courage; you mean by a "can."
But Chillingworth, he Hester and Pearl sin, he would not recognize them as his wife and daughter during the day. He put all his concern that in his seven years in the church terrible secret, for fear he would lose his love, it will not be forgiven. He was too weak to confess their sins. He suffers from heart trouble mysterious, seemingly caused by psychological stress. Worse, he was a consultant, their sins
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When her husband dead or alive, in love with a priest and gave birth to a baby girl, and therefore will not be tolerated for the Puritan doctrine. She was put in jail or even convicted, so she stood at the scaffold three hours publicly humiliated, and lifelong wearing a red letter A as a punishment. Authorities have repeatedly been forced her to speak with the prisoners, but she flatly refused, and alone, suffering the punishment, raising children alone grow. First of all, see here, she would sigh for the institution of marriage against unreasonable, shocking in her great love. Perhaps, when a woman is her love to the bone marrow will pay all of the time, you can use your own body to protect weak people themselves loved, to be at the expense of all whom endure everything and fame or fortune. And in this sacrifice, she does not care about the secular vision, do not care about the interests of the pros and cons, highlights the truly great and

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