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 * //Hester Prynne is "the figure, the body, the reality of sin." // **  **//-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter  // **

In Puritan Boston, when the ideal – to follow God – is abandoned, a person is committing sin. In 21st Century America, when the ideal of refraining from drug-use is flouted, a person is breaking the law. In both of these worlds, the crime lies within the act. The actor, merely the embodiment of the crime, serves as a figure to which society can point and exclaim, “Do not do what they do,” and thus the the societal “other” is born.

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