Rhetorical
devices are persuasive devices.
In ,sets out withto the governor's mansion to
plead with him that she should be allowed to keep custody of Pearl. She has heard rumors that
people want to remove Pearl from her care under the theory that her adultery makes her an unfit
mother.
Hawthorne wants to persuade the reader to be on Hester's side as she
makes her way to face the governor. To do that, Hawthorne uses anto the David and Goliath story
from the Bible. This puts Hester in the position of a David, the underdog facing a far more
powerful opponent. It is a match:
between the public, on
the one side, and a lonely woman, backed by the sympathies of nature ...
However, we also notice Hester's assurance and courage, for to her
it seems "scarcely" unequal to go up alone against the combined weight of the
community.
Further, in a novel in which nature is often depicted as a good
vis-a-vis the artificial and stifling constraints of the Puritan social order,...
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