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work_b3zlurofyrgnbfgnqet4ubvm2i	Michael Pringle	The Scarlet Lever: Hester's Civil Disobedience	2007.0	26	.pdf	application/pdf	9199	595	69	the A Hester wears begins to signify contrary to what the magistrates have publicly determined, then that shift in meaning political power parallels Thoreau's model of civil disobedience, where action itself becomes symbolic and, conversely, Puritan magistrates demand that Hester name Pearl's father. But the novel resists the assumption that power lies unilaterally with either Hester or the Puritan community. magistrates stand Hester alone before the community and brand of isolation that Hawthorne paints in The Scarlet Letter is congruent with Aristotle's dictum, for as Hester wanders further the machine," then we find in The Scarlet Letter an implicit criticism of Thoreau's positioning of the individual in relation to characters of Hester and Pearl, but Hawthorne does not take With Arthur dead and Hester (along with her scarlet letter) Why Hester takes up the symbol again is important to understanding The Scarlet Letter.	./cache/work_b3zlurofyrgnbfgnqet4ubvm2i.pdf	./txt/work_b3zlurofyrgnbfgnqet4ubvm2i.txt