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This 4 page paper compares and contrasts the characters of Hester Prynne and Edna Pontellier. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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find love. But the situations and the outcomes are quite different. This paper compares and contrasts the two characters. Discussion As noted above, the strongest similarity between the two
women is that they both engage in illicit love affairs, and for much the same reasons: they are discovering that they are sexual beings who need fulfillment. Hester becomes involved
with the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale (Hawthorne), while Edna Pontellier has an innocent relationship with a young man, Robert; and a decidedly non-innocent one with Alce? Arobin, a known seducer (Chopin).
However, while she feels great love for Robert, a love which he returns but will not act on, she uses Arobin only for sex (Chopin). In some ways, it appears
that she is substituting Arobin for Robert, since he refuses to come to her. The women are thus alike in that they have been unfaithful to their husbands. In addition,
those affairs (at least Hesters with Dimmesdale and Ednas with Robert) were occasioned by real love, though Ednas affair with Arobin was not. And in both cases the women faced
censure by society for their actions. However, there is a great difference between the two: Hesters "sin" is found out and she is publicly punished for it, while no one
ever learns of Ednas adultery. There are those who have their suspicions, but she is careful never to let it become known, because she is genuinely fond of her husband
(Chopin). There she differs from Hester, who cannot stand Chillingworth, the man she married. He is as cold as his name, and he is "threatened," in todays terms, by
a strong woman like Hester. But she is bound to him, even though she dislikes him intensely (Hawthorne). However, he does not understand her or her needs, just as her
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