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Prompt: Read the following passages from //The Scarlet Letter//. Passage 1 is from Chapter 2, “The Market-Place” (paragraph 11, “The young woman… by herself”). Passage 2 is from Chapter 3, “The Recognition” (paragraphs 1 and 2, “From this intense… his lips”). Then write a carefully reasoned and fully elaborated analysis of Hawthorne’s attitude toward these two characters. Consider allusion, irony, imagery, syntax, organization of details, and other rhetorical devices.

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