Religiously, it's a punishment undergone in token of sorrow for sin
[DOC] [TLE] Nathaniel Hawthorne and his biblical contexts - Digital Scholarship ... [PAR] the confusion about what religious membership Hawthorne may have claimed ..... 
the Bible and its contexts are a handful of literary texts that artistically deal with 
the ...... Hester, enlightened by her sin and punishment, devotes herself to 
helping others ...... he had noticed at the inn, but the man's complexion had 
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