Hester Prynne’s actions that represent the beauty in “wilderness” and difference, has a positive effect on her fellow women once they are able to see that she is a strong, independent woman that can assist them in their own troubles. This idea is made evident when the author comments the following at the end of the novel: “the scarlet letter… became a type of something to be sorrowed over, and looked upon with awe, yet with reverence too… Women, more especially, - in the continually recurring trials of wounded, wasted… came to Hester’s cottage, demanding why they were so wretched, and what the remedy” (Hawthorne 241). Through this passage, it is revealed that women of the society are able to accept Hester’s difference because they have cleared their minds of what they believe women should be. Furthermore, through Hester’s powerful actions of dealing with hardship, she is able to instill in them a feeling of self-empowerment and the idea of becoming the best people they could be after their most meager actions in society have been viewed “wretched[ly],” because of the expectations that women should be perfect and act according to the laws of God.…