The Victim In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

“It is better being the victim then the victimizer. ” ― Marlene Thornton. Hester Prynne was the victim in the story, not the villain. She encounter many obstacles of alienation from her society for example her abandonation from her town; she was left forsaken far away as possible from the puritans, her embarrassment of the people she placed reliance on, and her encounter of retaliation from her people against the one important person she loves. Although some of Hester Prynne’s actions might seem uncanny, She is still the victim in the novel the Scarlet letter because she is outcast from the society.
Hester suffered being abandoned from her society. Nathaniel Hawthorne, In this book “ The Scarlet Letter” writes that ”On the outskirts of town, …show more content…
Nathaniel Hawthorne, in this fiction story, “The Scarlet Letter,” he indicates that “Hester hears that certain influential citizens feel that pearl should be taken from her.” (96.) The people feel that Hester is incapable of taking care of Pearl right because of her so called crime. The puritans have a certain way of ruling mostly based on their religion and people are convinced that Hester is a bad influence to Pearl because of what she has done, adultery, the biggest problem for the puritans is the way Hester dresses pearl "the gorgeous tendencies of her imagination their full play," embroidering her clothes "with fantasies and flourishes of gold-thread."(100.) Hester usually uses color of gold and red on Pearl representing her scarlet letter ‘A’ but Hester does not care about the what they think and fights back. ”'No, my little Pearl!' said her mother. 'Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee” (108.)This the instances when Hester tries and convince the governor of the colony to let her keep her child because she is her everything, the governor actually agrees with the people of the town that they should take pearl away but let's Hester keep her …show more content…
Hester had to move to edge of the village because people didn't accept her. In addition, She has to wear a scarlet letter on her bosom meaning her "crime" of adultery so the people can acknowledge this set crime and she can feel the guilt towards it. When Hester was made to stand in the middle of a crowd of puritans they talked badly about her. Nathaniel Hawthorne , in this story, “The Scarlet Letter”, gives an example of Hester’s alienation, “Doth the universe lie within the compass of yonder town, which only a little time ago was but a leaf-strewn desert, as lonely as this around us? Whither leads yonder forest track? Backwards to the settlement, thou sayest! Yes; but onward too! Deeper it goes, and deeper, into the wilderness, less plainly to be seen at every step! until, some few miles hence, the yellow leaves will show no vestige of the white man’s tread. There thou art free! So brief a journey would bring thee from a world where thou hast been most wretched, to one where thou mayest still be happy! Is there not shade enough in all this boundless forest to hide thy heart from the gaze of Roger Chillingworth?” (17.46) Hester has been isolated for so long that she start to realize how unfair and ridiculous the rules are in this colony so imagines of another place to go far away from there. Even more, The townspeople strived to take away Hester's child because they felt she will not raise her right because