The Scarlet Letter: Evil And Mistriss Hibbins
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Evil can be defined as, "That which is the reverse of good,
physically or morally; whatever is censurable painful, disastrous, or
undesirable." In the novel "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Mistriss Hibbins can also be defined in those terms. She is believed to be
evil by many of the c ....
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.... to her skirts, and looking sourer than ever, as having
hardly got a wink of sleep after her night ride."
The people in town are scared to even be near Mistriss Hibbins. At
the last scaffold scene, "The crowd gave way before her, and seemed to fear
the touch of her garment, as if it carried the plague among its gorgeous
folds." Here, it says that the townspeople were so scared, that they
thought her evil was contagious.
Mistriss Hibbins also effects the way some of the characters think ....
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