Hester Prynne

Scarlet Letter, author Nathaniel Hawthorne includes Hester Prynne 's view in terms of the unfair position of women in society. Hawthorne conveys Hester 's thinking about the subservient role women play, and how this is a fundamental aspect of the society they live in, however unfair it may be; the only way to change this idea would be to build society anew and change the very hereditary nature of not just men, but women as well. Hawthorne shows how Hester 's speculative tone comes as a result of…

patriarchal society. Hester Prynne, the Puritan adulteress shamed for her crime in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”, primely exemplifies this definition. Throughout the course of the allegorical work, Hester is able to overcome the ignominy brought upon her, support a child on her own, and make a living, despite being known as the town’s adulteress. For these reasons, the Hester Prynne stood as the strongest feminist of her time, and perhaps even of today. During and after her public…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is resembled as the rosebush. The rosebush is shown to represent hope for the prisoners to have hope to leave a place of sins, the rosebush also resembles Hester’s life in which flowers sometimes blossom and fall apart at times. Hester Prynne was invented by Nathaniel Hawthorne who created Prynne to be a woman who commits adultery and gets punished. Prynne is taken to prison in which Hawthorne explains it as a sad, dark, and depressing…

At the start of the novel, everyone regards Hester Prynne as a disgrace. Not only did she cheat on her husband whom had paid for her to travel to the New World, but she also wouldn’t relay to the political leaders of the community who it was that she had had an affair with. Along with this, she was also…

mother, also wearing the colors of scarlet and gold, the daughter stood as a reminder of the adultery that the mother had committed. The daughter, Pearl, and the mother, Hester Prynne, are characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, a novel about sin and how people deal with the after effects of sin. Hawthorne uses Hester Prynne and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the other adulterer, to show the effects of both private and public remedies of dealing with sin. Hester’s public shame in…

persuade the reader to sympathize for Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale for they are described in a more positive light. On the contrary, Hawthorne’s description of Roger Chillingworth includes rather harsh words that depict Chillingworth as the antagonist. Through his words, it is clear that Hawthorne views Hester Prynne as a passionate and brave woman that endured many years of shame and judgement. Towards the beginning of the novel, Hawthorne describes how Hester attempted to hide the…

Hawthorne proves to the reader that within each stage of life, a person is judged by society. Hester Prynne, the main character, is judged and placed in the center of town with a scarlet letter ‘A’ on her chest because of a sin she committed, having a child out of wedlock. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses various characters to explain the effects of judgemental and social pressure Hester Prynne was in the adult stage of life and society judged her based upon the poor decisions she…

consensus is that The Scarlet Letter was written as a pro-feminist novel, seeing as Hester Prynne is considered one of the first feminist role models in American literature. Hester was outcasted in her Puritan community as an adulteress, tortured by her peers and adulterer, and seemingly confined by gender roles, but still prevailed in the end. Though she was put through numerous trials in her life, Hester Prynne remained strong, as she fought for herself, her daughter, and all the other women…

Nathaniel Hawthorne. I believe I will focus on how Hester Prynne defies both society and gender based stereotypes. It will mostly be about her, but I will bring up Dimmesdale to contrast the two opposites. Additionally, I will use her affair with Dimmesdale that occurred behind her husband’s back. I can go into how Dimmesdale also takes on a feminine role, opposite to Hester, and how Hester chooses not to be a meek, Puritan wife. This leads to how Hester continually takes control of her life…

into living far more moral lives than immoral lives. A similar transformation can be seen in The Scarlet Letter, when Chillingworth transforms into a despicable individual because of his plans for vengeance on Hester Prynne. Before Chillingworth arrives to Boston the society in which Hester is situated in, he is known to be an intellectual and studious man who is had the qualities of a gentle, caring individual. However, as Chillingworth comes to know of Hester’s sin of adultery, a desire for…