The Scarlet Letter | Chapter 5 Summary and Analysis | Nathaniel Hawthorne

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0:34 Hester’s ability to sense the sins of others
1:03 sin, guilt, personal and public truth
1:22 hester defiant of her embrace of scarlet letter but sees her suffering as a way to absolution
1:31 beliefs of calvinist puritans
1:42 verbal irony

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