LISA: In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is shunned by her community because she has an affair and a child out of wedlock. It shows that her community is hypocritical, because they act all righteous and moralbut they have no compassion for her. ERNESTO: I don't think I agree. I think they're just acting according to the morality of their religion , which says that you have to conformand she doesn't so there's no place for her. Those are the rules. NINA: What's kind of funny is that because there is no place for her, and she's cast out, she really starts thinking for herself. She becomes a kind of philosopher . VIVIAN: Right. In a waythe fact that they've shunned her because she doesn't conform means she has less reason to be part of their community. They're not exactly winning her over ERNESTO agree. I think that religious morality has to involve compassion, because how else can you get somebody on your side ? LISA: I really admire her, because my family had a similar experience at our old church. If you disagreed, you weren't welcome. I'm definitely pro-Hester Which of the following is a research question that arises most naturally from this discussion? A. How have readers in different time periods felt about Hester Prynne ? B. Is Hester Prynne treated worse than other characters in The Scarlet Letter? C. Does morality require a religious basis, or can it exist by itself? D. How does Hester Prynne represent a critique of her community's religion