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And another thing… Hawthorne brings up the idea that if a papist were in the crowd where Hester was demonstrated, they’d liken it to the “sacred image of sinless motherhood, whose infant was to redeem the world.” As a ‘papist’ myself, that’s what I immediately thought of.

I am so glad I wasn’t born in puritanical New England