Hester has become accustomed to reflect no inner emotion outwards due to the curse blessed upon her. After such a long period of holding back feelings, such behavior will lead her to seems almost like the undead. Just a fleeting carcass of human remains. What makes humans, humans? Some may conclude it is the ability to have emotions and feelings, that is what differentiates us from the savages and beasts that roam. Therefore Hester’s inability, or rather, the lock to shield her inner self-drives her to embody the presence of a something, inhuman. Her presence is no difference from those they pray homage
