The Scarlet Letter

What are some quotes about Conformity in The Scarlet Letter?

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Most of Hester's conformity also illustrates her individuality. She takes her punishment, but she does it in her own way.

"On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold-thread, appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it ... was of a splendor in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony."

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“Mother," said [Pearl], “was that the same minister that kissed me by the brook?"

“Hold thy peace, dear little Pearl!" whispered her mother. “We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest."

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The Scarlet Letter