The Scarlet Letter

What "general symbol" has Hester become?

chapter five Hester at her needle

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Hester has become the symbol of a weak woman.

"Throughout them all, giving up her individuality, she would become the general symbol at which the preacher and moralist might point, and in which they might vivify and embody their images of woman’s frailty and sinful passion."

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The Scarlet Letter