Wang, Yamin. A Representative of the New Female Image- Analyzing Hester Prynne 's consciousness in The Scarlet Letter. Finland 2010. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, We. April 25 2016.
In Yamin Wang’s literary citizen of hester Prynne she calls Hester the representative of the ‘New Female Image.’ Primarily Wang speaks about the development of the female images beginning with the traditional female image. This traditional image is split up into two images; one being praiseworthy femaleness and the other discriminated femaleness. Praiseworthy femaleness is where women are inferior to men and have been since the beginning of time. God created the man first therefore men have superior intelligence unlike women who are not capable of …show more content…
Contrying to initial beliefs about his book, female character Hester is the central character and protagonist of the novel not her main counterpart, Dimmesdale. In Nina Baym 's words “the narrator forces us, just as Hester forces her Puritan towns mates, to see her as a good woman on her own terms.” Hester is the true hero her rebellion against the society that expects her to be downtrodden, she is the opposite she fights to maintain her self-respect and support her daughter all while her constituents are rooting for her undoing. “In her inner integrity and her outer responsiveness, Hester is a model and a counter statement.” This sentence best summarizes the criticism as a …show more content…
According to Hannah Van Arsdale the concept has been around since the beginning of time and the first major movement was for women to obtain political rights. The general conclusion however is gender equality and love for one 's self as a women. “Hawthorne paints Hester as a free woman in the ending pages of this book, and also makes her and Dimmesdale equals by having them share the same marker on their tombstones.” writes Hannah Van arsdale . Hester can she looked upon as a role model feminist because of the way she shamelessly goes in opposition of the Puritan 's idea of how a woman’s life should be lived. The tendency of her date and fortunes had been to set her free .” (Hawthorne
In Yamin Wang’s literary citizen of hester Prynne she calls Hester the representative of the ‘New Female Image.’ Primarily Wang speaks about the development of the female images beginning with the traditional female image. This traditional image is split up into two images; one being praiseworthy femaleness and the other discriminated femaleness. Praiseworthy femaleness is where women are inferior to men and have been since the beginning of time. God created the man first therefore men have superior intelligence unlike women who are not capable of …show more content…
Contrying to initial beliefs about his book, female character Hester is the central character and protagonist of the novel not her main counterpart, Dimmesdale. In Nina Baym 's words “the narrator forces us, just as Hester forces her Puritan towns mates, to see her as a good woman on her own terms.” Hester is the true hero her rebellion against the society that expects her to be downtrodden, she is the opposite she fights to maintain her self-respect and support her daughter all while her constituents are rooting for her undoing. “In her inner integrity and her outer responsiveness, Hester is a model and a counter statement.” This sentence best summarizes the criticism as a …show more content…
According to Hannah Van Arsdale the concept has been around since the beginning of time and the first major movement was for women to obtain political rights. The general conclusion however is gender equality and love for one 's self as a women. “Hawthorne paints Hester as a free woman in the ending pages of this book, and also makes her and Dimmesdale equals by having them share the same marker on their tombstones.” writes Hannah Van arsdale . Hester can she looked upon as a role model feminist because of the way she shamelessly goes in opposition of the Puritan 's idea of how a woman’s life should be lived. The tendency of her date and fortunes had been to set her free .” (Hawthorne