In today’s society women have strongly been fighting for equality for quite some time. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne expresses his views about women 's issues that people can see today. Hawthorne reveals multiple issues that can be seen by the reader all throughout the novel. Carolyn Maibor expresses how she believes that Hawthorne is expressing women 's issues in her article A Woman’s Calling. Maibor’s article shows that Hester could be a leader in society because she worked in society after being shunned, she did good for people in need, and staying faithful when no one else would. Hester Prynne starts becoming a leader when she starts being the seamstress for her community and taking initiative to give back
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Hester took it upon herself to make a better image of herself to the community beyond the scarlet letter. Hester occupies her time sewing because she has no other job she can apply for because of her past of being a sinner. She makes her living by sewing the people of the town clothing. In the novel, Hawthorne explains multiple abilities of Hester’s works:
“In the array of funerals, too, --whether for the apparel of the dead body, or to typify,by manifold emblematic devices of a sable cloth and snowy lawn, the demand for such labor as Hester Prynne could supply. Baby-linen --for babies then wore robes of state --afforded still another possibility of toil and emolument.” …show more content…
Hester wants to give back after the commotion she has caused in the town. Even after all the shame, pain and torture she persevered and stayed faithful. Even when Hester was given the chance to redeem herself in a new society where her sin was unknown and her life could continue; she did not. Hester stayed faithful to her town and took her punishment, because she stayed she was staying truthful to her punishment and Arthur Dimmesdale. Many in Hester’s situation would have fled the society in hopes of continuing their lives, yet Hester had the audacity to stay and face the whips. Hester never ran away from her sin or try to hide the fact that she had done wrong; thus being faithful to her sin and to the community. Hester was not one to escape her ignominy but rather face it for the sake of her child and the respect her daughter would soon have for her. Maibor’s article explains a bit why Hester might have
Hester took it upon herself to make a better image of herself to the community beyond the scarlet letter. Hester occupies her time sewing because she has no other job she can apply for because of her past of being a sinner. She makes her living by sewing the people of the town clothing. In the novel, Hawthorne explains multiple abilities of Hester’s works:
“In the array of funerals, too, --whether for the apparel of the dead body, or to typify,by manifold emblematic devices of a sable cloth and snowy lawn, the demand for such labor as Hester Prynne could supply. Baby-linen --for babies then wore robes of state --afforded still another possibility of toil and emolument.” …show more content…
Hester wants to give back after the commotion she has caused in the town. Even after all the shame, pain and torture she persevered and stayed faithful. Even when Hester was given the chance to redeem herself in a new society where her sin was unknown and her life could continue; she did not. Hester stayed faithful to her town and took her punishment, because she stayed she was staying truthful to her punishment and Arthur Dimmesdale. Many in Hester’s situation would have fled the society in hopes of continuing their lives, yet Hester had the audacity to stay and face the whips. Hester never ran away from her sin or try to hide the fact that she had done wrong; thus being faithful to her sin and to the community. Hester was not one to escape her ignominy but rather face it for the sake of her child and the respect her daughter would soon have for her. Maibor’s article explains a bit why Hester might have