e created a very outstanding female protagonist
             who is really admirable, though not very typical for Hawthorne's work for example:
             compared to the weak characters of the female innocent victims Beatrice and
             Georgiana in this short stories 'Rappaccini's daughter' and 'The Birthmark'.
             Even though she is humiliated and despised by, as well as isolated from the Puritan
             community she is very tough and shows great strength and personal greatness in
             In my eyes this is also an attitude Hester Prynne and Frederick Douglass share: They
             both live for their task in life, follow their strong will and belief, their big challenge that
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