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as does the red letter she must wear on her clothing, and it is clear that the people of the town come to accept her in a way they would not have believed they would when they first punished her. The Scarlet Letter is a novel about the consequences in Puritan society of a seduction. The seduction has taken place perhaps a year before the opening of the novel, but the fact of the seduction is incontrovertible because of the baby Hester Prynne has borne. She is the only person being punished for this sin

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