Hester Prynne

III Honors November 2, 2016 Hester Prynne: Slut or Feminist Icon? The thing women have yet to learn is that nobody gives you power, you just take it. ~Roseanne Barr. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester shines as a feminist throughout the story. A feminist is described as having the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities and partake in organized activity in support of women 's rights and interests. Hester portrays many feminist…

wrong that you do. This essentially causes you to feel isolated and since no one wants to be around you also have to live in confinement. This is the case for Hester Prynne, the main character in the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Because of the Puritan community that she lives in, when she commits the crime of adultery Hester is thrown into the pit of isolation. She is forced to wear a scarlet A on her chest to represent the evil inside of her, yet she does well. The only…

In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne the main character Hester Prynne is being punished for a crime she committed and the punishment was public humiliation so she was forced to wear a scarlet letter. She was being discriminated and left out of society. In this book Hawthorne points out the way in which women are treated in the Puritan world and the way in which their sins are severely punished in the Puritan’s society. Hester Prynn is forced to wear a scarlet A to be shamed by the…

The Scarlet Letter is a novel containing a character that is considered to be one of the first great heroines of American Literature. Hester Prynne is illustrated as a very strong woman despite the way she has been victimized. Many people residing in the same town she moved to had mistreated her because of a sin she committed. She was publicly humiliated in front of women who, for the time she spent standing on a scaffold, belittled her. Regardless of the fact that she had to go through this…

Dimmesdale is an active part in an adultery relationship with Hester Prynne. This relationship resulted in Hester getting pregnant with their daughter Pearl. Dimmesdale was odd about the whole situation by laying low when it came to Hester and Pearl, until Pearl was around seven years of age, he started to slowly come out to the public about being Hester’s forbidden lover and Pearls father. Chillingworth is Hester’s “forgotten and dead husband” that comes back and hides his identity and…

believes in. That woman is Hester Prynne, in the novel The Scarlet Letter. Hester Prynne has come over much controversy, the largest point being how she is conveyed and seen as a character. Although many literary critics argue Hester’s character is unable to agree that her deed was wrong and threatened the destruction of society, she can be best be described as a dynamic heroine because of the changes she undergoes, her array of emotions, and the way Hawthorne presents Hester as a protagonist…

beginning and their development at the end of the novel, the character becomes real. This is apparent in the transgression of Hester Prynne and Pearl in the short novel. Although Pearl is portrayed to have been more humanized than Hester, Pearl influenced Hester’s transformation serving as a symbol of Hester’s conscience; a blessing and a curse. The character of Hester Prynne struggles with coping with shame and guilt. Hester’s guilt is associated with committing…

While rather strict, demanding, and often arbitrary rules and standards for society set by the public and the media simply pales in comparison to the tyrannical standards of the puritan population during the time of Hester Prynne. It was the social constructs erected by the puritans during the 17th century were very different and much less lax than their modern counterparts. This difference is due largely due to the advancing media and its ability to gather, mingle, and send public views and…

Wang, Yamin. A Representative of the New Female Image- Analyzing Hester Prynne 's consciousness in The Scarlet Letter. Finland 2010. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, We. April 25 2016. In Yamin Wang’s literary citizen of hester Prynne she calls Hester the representative of the ‘New Female Image.’ Primarily Wang speaks about the development of the female images beginning with the traditional female image. This traditional image is split up into two images; one being praiseworthy…

Hester Prynne and Arnold Spirit are two characters who don’t have much in common besides the fact that despite all issues and conflicts, they tried to fit into society. These two have tried to conform to social norms, yet at the same tried to escape society and rise above their struggles and the hatred they received from others. For Hester Prynne, each and every day she struggled to deal with ignominy and the townspeople constantly looking down at her because of her past. Arnold Spirit on the…