Hester Prynne

minded, pale, and easily tempted minister, Hester Prynne, the hardworking and loyal lover of Dimmesdale, Pearl, the lively and imp-like child of Dimmesdale and Prynne, and Roger Chillingsworth, the quiet and sinister husband of Hester Prynne. While Chillingsworth and Pearl are both staying…

that of Hester Prynne, an adulteress with a child from her affair. While Hester may be a cheater and stands for all of the things that are wrong in the world, there is two sides to every story. Hester could be seen as a hero, a 17th century feminist role model for all of the girls in the Puritan community despite the sins that she has committed. Hester, while flawed, truly is a heroic character that represents feminism in many ways in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Hester is…

Lawrence writes to expose the malicious side of Hester Prynne in his critical essay, “On The Scarlet Letter”. With his unique style of writing, Lawrence criticizes the way Hawthorne victimizes Hester, creating the facade that is her character. To convey his reasoning, he provides context and analysis of her disgraceful character throughout the novel. Lawrence uses sarcastic tone, biblical allusions, and choppy and repetitive syntax to prove that Hester Prynne is not a heroine in The Scarlet…

Letter, the protagonist, Hester Prynne has been accused of adultery in her Puritan society, in Boston, Massachusetts. The novel opens with the narrator discussing the Custom House and his discovery of the story of Hester Prynne. Following this introduction, the story flashes back to the time of Hester Prynne. She is going from the prison to the town scaffold with onlookers watching her journey. One of these onlookers is an elderly man, who is later found out to be Hester Prynne’s ex-husband, who…

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…

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, tells the tale of a Puritan community in Massachusetts, rocked by scandal. Hester Prynne is convicted of adultery after the birth of her daughter and the disappearance of her husband three years prior. Her fellow sinner, the reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, is never discovered after Hester lies to protect him. Dimmesdale is shown under constant duress throughout the story as the guilt of what he committed builds inside of him. The pressure and stress created…

Roger Chillingworth and Hester Prynne. Throughout the book The Scarlet Letter Arthur Dimmesdale was challenged many times and each time he failed, proving he was in fact cowardly. From the very beginning Dimmesdale hid the fact that pearl was his daughter. He denied his child and that may be the most cowardly thing a man could ever do.Dimmesdale…

everything is focused around God and being pure. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne, a main character of the novel, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the protagonist illustrates how not to be pure. Henry F. Chorley’s article, Severity, Purity and Sympathy analyzes the transformation of the town and Hester throughout the novel. Hester Prynne, a motherly woman in the Puritan society, is shunned from her community because of her actions. Hester transforms from being shunned in the community, to…

his lover and the father of her child, Hester Prynne. Throughout the book you realize that Hester was not just the only “sinner”. Although he was a minister, he committed adultery which broke his vow of being loyal to his religious belief. Following this line of hypocrisy, as they were on the scaffold, he yells to Hester to release the name of the father but, little does the crowd know that he is the father. Lastly, following the lines of hypocrisy, Hester relieving the true identity of…

In “The Scarlet Letter,” the Puritan’s cruelty towards Hester Prynne functions as a mean to develop Hawthorne’s idea of how people naturally react negatively towards others and in this case, those who have made mistakes. Hester’s mistake unfolds the plot and reveals truths about how Puritans, who were people that were persecuted due to their religion, punished her for breaking one of their rules given by God, which was to not commit adultery. This mistake also sparks the interest of another…