Transcription: So what is Hawthorne's attitude towards Hester? Is she the proud rebel before her time or is she someone who has committed so fatal an infraction of human law that she must suffer forever for it? Certainly he gives us a figure in that novel, so vivid, so appealing, so attractive and unforgettable that I think the reader remains attached to her and forgiving of her, despite anything the narrator would say. And yet the narrator does say, but here she went too far. Here the Scarlet Letter had not done its office. A famous line describing those liberties of thought she reached in her lonely specul ...
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