Chapter 13, 'Another View of Hester'
'The world's law was no law for her mind.' Hester's intellectual liberation and proto-feminist musings on the situation of women.
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From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
In her years of isolation Hester's mind grows freer than any in the colony, ranging into thoughts that would have shocked the Puritans more than the letter itself.
Chapter 24, 'Conclusion'
Hester's late prophecy of 'a new truth' to establish 'the whole relation between man and woman on a surer ground of mutual happiness.'
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