Hester Prynne

A true contemporary of the modern era, Hester Prynne was cast into the 17th century Puritan America in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne as a foreigner of the times. Immediately speculated as an adulteress for bearing a child with no known father in the community, Hester Prynne is expelled from society. Hester, although ridiculed and alienated, emerges as the representative of the new female image. She defies the status quo as a proponent of feminism and individuality, a product of her…

“evil” is the dark personalities inside of us all that affects the way we treat others. The main character, Hester Prynne, is portrayed as evil to the faint eye but Hawthorne is able to show the reader the good in Hester’s actions. Hawthorne’s writing is very true to himself, he writes in an elevated style that is, at some point, hard to comprehend. However, his style of writing is able…

characteristics to show the internal development of each character. Throughout the novel, Hester Prynne evolves from a position of pure, haughty defiance to a more resigned, complacent position in society. Hawthorne uses Hester’s beauty and outward appearance to show this transformation. Hawthorne also uses Hester’s aging and appearance to show her change into a maternal figure. At the start of the novel, while Hester is technically a mother, she is hardly maternal in nature. However later…

published by Ticknor, Reed, and Fields in 1850. The story is centered around a young woman named Hester Prynne and her struggles living in the early years of the Boston colony in colonial America. Hester is faced with harsh circumstances in a new world that is pitted against her. In this story Nathaniel Hawthorne conveys a strong, proud character in a book that will be passed on for generations. Hester Prynne provides necessary will power in her fight for acceptance in the Puritanical church by…

In the beginning of this section, Hester Prynne hears rumors that Pearl will be taken away from her as she is seen as an unfit mother due to her sins. She goes to Governor Bellingham's house to deliver some gloves and to ask him about these rumors. While in the house, Pearl points out her and Hester's reflections in some of the armor, and Hester is horrified since the majority of her image is taken by the Scarlet Letter. He later, along with Chillingworth, Dimmesdale, and Wilson, claims that he…

phraseology and diction helps to convey the characteristics of the three dynamic characters; Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, and Arthur Dimmesdale. In addition to Hawthorne’s utilization of word choice, his use of tone toward each character elucidates the shift in characterization due to events in the novel. Hester Prynne, the protagonist, presents herself as an independent, proud woman. As Hester was put in jail and eschewed by the town, “The chain that bound her……

Hawthorne’s book, The Scarlet Letter, the adulteress Hester Prynne lives life in sin. When her sin has time to fester, Hester is often left with feelings of loneliness and resentment from everyone around her. After years of rejection and judgement from the townspeople, she loses sight of morality and strays into a moral wilderness which is a strength and a weakness. Caring for others but not oneself can lead one into moral wilderness. Hester strays from what is morally right when she wishes…

confession. Hester has almost nothing to lose, so she can really seize this opportunity and rise out of the ashes. Dimmesdale has a high position in society, but still has his relationship with god to rely on, so he is unnwilling at first but ultimately able to own his sin and rise up. Chillingworth has a lie to be exposed, a secret identity as a sinner, and as a wronged husband; that’s too much so…

The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne is a sinner of adultery. Hester has to wear the Scarlett “A” among her bosom. This letter “A” stands for adultery, this symbolizes when a man and a woman have a baby when they are not married. This sin is strongly looked down upon in the Puritan society. Hester has used her sin to become an overall stronger person. She has raised a daughter among a society that vigorously stood against her. Hester has proven too many characters within the…

In The Scarlet Letter,by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne, an adulterer, is confronted by her husband, Roger Chillingworth, while she is in prison. While Mr. Chillingworth is there he tells Hester that because of the A on her chest she will always be "a living sermon against sin" , a constant reminder of what not to do, and a warning of the consequences of sin. However Roger is mistaken in that belief because while Hester Prynne did face extreme prejudice for a substantial amount of time…