Feminist is what the character Hester Prynne represents in the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. To be feminist is a woman who is independent, strong and who is self determined. A person who doesn’t count on anybody else but themselves and that moment when they do show hopelessness to somebody that somebody will have a strong connection with the feminist. A woman who even in their darkest moments can pull through to see the bigger outcome of the problem. For example, Hester Prynne had to stand upon the scaffold in the bright sun with her daughter in her arms for a couple of hours until it was time to step down. She was determined to complete her punishment of committing the sin of adultery in the Puritan life. Hester is
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She realizes if she wants her daughter to live a good life she has to be strong and keep moving forward. She must “sustain and carry” (69) her sin forward and make a better life for her daughter to live in. She knows what she has to do in order for that to happen. After committing the sin “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” (52). The letter “A” is to humiliate her by showing the whole town the sin she has committed. She does not let that phase her, she goes on with her life as if it wasn’t even there. Hester doesn't look for any company or anybody to help her with her daughter, not even the father of the child. The father, which is Dimmesdale tells Hester, to not say anything about him being the father of Pearl, being the independent women she is she agreed with him. A woman is only as strong as she believes she is, it doesn’t matter what other people think about her, she knows she is responsible and she doesn’t need anybody else to tell her she is. People would describe Hester as beautiful, young and smart. People would describe pearl as pure, brilliant, and beautiful. “Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast- at her, the child of honourable parents- at her, the mother of a babe that would hereafter …show more content…
“Hester’s strong, calm steadfastly- enduring spirit almost sank, at last, on beholding this dark and grim countenance of an inevitable doom, which at the moment when a passage seemed to open for the minister and herself out of their labyrinth of misery- showed itself with an unrelenting smile, right in the midst of their path” (223), the author is referring to Chillingworth. He made sure Hester and Pearl had a miserable life and he pretended to be a kind friend to Dimmesdale to know his secret. Chillingworth got what he wanted. Dimmesdale, Pearl and Hester announced to the town that Dimmesdale is the father of Pearl but soon after that Dimmesdale dies because he was ill. Hester was on the verge of breaking, but she had to put on a strong face for Pearl. Hester got what she wanted which was to tell everybody that Dimmesdale was the father and that’s exactly what they
She realizes if she wants her daughter to live a good life she has to be strong and keep moving forward. She must “sustain and carry” (69) her sin forward and make a better life for her daughter to live in. She knows what she has to do in order for that to happen. After committing the sin “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” (52). The letter “A” is to humiliate her by showing the whole town the sin she has committed. She does not let that phase her, she goes on with her life as if it wasn’t even there. Hester doesn't look for any company or anybody to help her with her daughter, not even the father of the child. The father, which is Dimmesdale tells Hester, to not say anything about him being the father of Pearl, being the independent women she is she agreed with him. A woman is only as strong as she believes she is, it doesn’t matter what other people think about her, she knows she is responsible and she doesn’t need anybody else to tell her she is. People would describe Hester as beautiful, young and smart. People would describe pearl as pure, brilliant, and beautiful. “Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast- at her, the child of honourable parents- at her, the mother of a babe that would hereafter …show more content…
“Hester’s strong, calm steadfastly- enduring spirit almost sank, at last, on beholding this dark and grim countenance of an inevitable doom, which at the moment when a passage seemed to open for the minister and herself out of their labyrinth of misery- showed itself with an unrelenting smile, right in the midst of their path” (223), the author is referring to Chillingworth. He made sure Hester and Pearl had a miserable life and he pretended to be a kind friend to Dimmesdale to know his secret. Chillingworth got what he wanted. Dimmesdale, Pearl and Hester announced to the town that Dimmesdale is the father of Pearl but soon after that Dimmesdale dies because he was ill. Hester was on the verge of breaking, but she had to put on a strong face for Pearl. Hester got what she wanted which was to tell everybody that Dimmesdale was the father and that’s exactly what they