Hester Prynne, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter", is a considerate and deliberate woman, whose personality shines through her society. One of our first encounters with Ms. Prynne is her standing on the scaffold with her three month old baby, being publicly shamed for adultery, but refusing to name the father (Hawthorne, p. 58). By the end of her jail sentence, she knew that what she did was a sin to her religion. She chose to stay in her hometown, at the "scene of her guilt" (p. 68), and live in a small, secluded cottage, making her living by sewing things for poor people. As years went on, and people became accustomed to Hester and her scarlet letter, she began caring less and less about what people in her society thought about
