Character is essential to plot,an indispensable element of novel.To study the characters of a vovel is helpful to comprehend the whole novel.Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter is one of his representative novels and Hester Prynne is the heroine of this novel.To study her character,passion and moral growth is very helpful to understand the whole novel better.Hester,comes of an impoverished but genteel English family,is full of pride and self-esteem from her bearing.Coupled with the pride is her independence that helps her overcomes the difficulties she meets in her life.In addition to character Hester's sin is also related to her moral view.Firstly,her weak moral sense cannot stop her committing the sin and then after being punished and expiation for years her moral view has been well strengthened.
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