"...if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom besides Hester Prynne...."(Scarlet Letter, 78). A man by the name of Randall Stewart from the Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism has this to say about the scarlet letter:
             Hester is a romantic heroine, a splendid one. She has been
             much admired, and justifiably. The richly embroidered A
             has been called by one of her modern admirers "the red
             Hester surely shows courage, especially during the first scaffold scene. For three long hours, Hester does not succumb to the mockery and persecution of the people. T
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