The Scarlet Letter, created by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850 is story about a strong young women named Hester Prynne who is being punished in front of her entire Puritan community in Massachusetts Bay Colony for committing adultery with a town minister. Because of her sins committed, she is now sentenced to wear a scarlet letter A on her bosom to mark her shame because of her choice to have a love affair with a minister named Arthur Dimmesdale. Throughout the whole story, Hester can be seen as a strong woman who not only wants to stand up to Puritan beliefs, but she wants to stand up for her rights as being a woman, just like a feminist. A feminist is someone who wants to stand up for women's rights and have the same and equal rights as men. Just because Hester decided to go against her unloved marriage and be with someone whom she truly desires, doesn't mean she had to go through hell with public shaming and the humiliation of wearing a scarlet A to show that she committed adultery. Therefore, The Scarlet Letter is a feminist novel because Hester Prynne portrays an example of what an early female feminist went through.
