Stereotypes In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

In The Scarlet Letter, the main protagonist Hester Prynne is quite a strong woman handling all these trials basically on her own. The author Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts Hester without many of the stereotypes that we know to have been in women's lives. I would hope that those stereotypes have been long since buried, but sadly some still remain. Although there are many differences as to how women were treated in the colonial time, mid-America, and our own generation. Sadly there are still stereotypes and sexist views in the world, however these stereotypes are only true in respect to certain people not women in general.
During colonial times people were extremely sexist, they didn’t think women were worth much except a mother for children and a housekeeper. “The vast majority of white women in the eighteenth century spent their days performing many arduous tasks in and around their rural …show more content…
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