The Scarlet Letter to Hester Prance

Hester Prance's imagination was somehow affected by the scarlet letter. She shuttered to believe, yet could not help believing, that it gave her a sympathetic knowledge of the hidden sin in our hearts. In all her miserable experience, there was nothing else so awful and so loathsome as this sense. Such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin. We have as yet hardly spoken of the infant that little creature whose innocent life had sprung by the inscrutable decree of providence. How strange, man had marked this woman's heart with such potent and disastrous efficacy that no human sympathy could reach her save its own humanity. Her pearl called her child became

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