Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author of The Scarlet Letter, conveyed that Hester Prynne would, “go about the country as a kind of voluntary nurse, and doing whatever miscellaneous good she might; taking upon herself, likewise, to give advice in all matters, especially those of the heart.” He found old writings about Hester’s life. The author took these pages into consideration while he presented Hester to be someone that through repentance of her adultery sin she evolved to be generous and empathetic
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Hester Prynne’s character is highly debated in the Scarlet Letter. Two authors, Mark Van Doren and D.H. Lawrence, of two articles take two different perspectives of how Hester Prynne’s character is portrayed. The ideas that Van Doren expressed to portray Hester’s character are more convincing because of the supportive allusion, supportive tone, and creative diction which are used. Van Doren effectively uses supportive allusion to give his perspective on Hester Prynne and who she is as a character
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different individuals. The Scarlet Letter presents individualism as an integral part of society due to the diversity of human personalities and passions, yet the strict society that Hawthorne depicts limits the true potential of individualism. Hester Prynne, an adulterer and supposed widow, mostly thrives on being an individual, yet is compelled
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destructive and blinding to an individual. In The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne, a young woman living in 1600s, moves to Puritan New England from Europe, and her husband temporarily stays behind to get his affairs in order. She commits adultery and has a child whom she names Pearl. Her husband, an old, crippled physician named Roger Chillingworth, shows up soon after. Hester will not tell anyone the father’s identity, so her husband becomes determined to find the father
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viewed as a symbol of sin. The middle of the novel is a transition period, where the scarlet letter "A" is viewed differently. In the commencement of the novel, the letter is taken as a label of punishment and sin. Hester Prynne bears the label of the letter upon her chest. She stands as a label of an outcast in front of society. She is wearing this symbol to burden her with punishment throughout her life. She stands on a plank where her punishment is given
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within which she resides. Hawthorne positions Hester Prynne as a proto-feminist, standing for women and their rights in a time where women were looked down upon. To begin, Hawthorne describes the prison and the scene around the scaffold in the center of town. Hester had been imprisoned for having adulterous relations with her Reverend, Arthur Dimmesdale, which led to the creation of a child, Hester's daughter Pearl. The town is waiting to see Hester and watch her as she stands on the scaffold for
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product. The novel begins in the seventeenth-century Boston, when Hester is briefly released from prison so that she can be paraded through town, displaying her scarlet "A" embroided on her chest while standing on top of the town scaffold. She carries her baby daughter, Pearl, in her arms. After being Hester steadfastly refuses to reveal the name of Pearl’s father, so that he might be saved from punishment. Hester Prynne’s long lost husband arrives in the midst of this parade through
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stricken to be sin itself, since she born of it. On Hester and Pearl’s trip to the Governor's Hall, Pearl’s red dress is described in great detail, and her obsession with the scarlet letter on Hester’s bosom is displayed. Even as a tiny girl, Pearl creates a fascination with the letter and continually touches it and throws wildflowers at it. She questions her mother about why she wears it and where it came from. “Pearl becomes frantic when Hester removes it and she demands her to pick it up; the commotion
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levels of sin; the sin of vengeance, the sin of hypocrisy, and the sin of adultery. In the beginning of the novel, it is revealed that Hester Prynne is guilty of adultery. One of the consequences for her sin is a prison term. Secondly, she had a child, a baby who was conceived from lust rather than love. Hester named this child Pearl, meaning of great value. Thirdly, Hester was condemned to wear the scarlet letter, upon her bosom, for all to recognize her as one who has met with the black man in the forest
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rebellious woman ' Hester" defying the extremely strict laws guided by masculine power in a social environment. Hester is against puritanism because of opposing the laws. When she committed the prohibited sin "Adultery" with her lover ' Reverend Dimmesdale' , she justified beyond the sacred love she had. In my opinion , from the beginning it was not her fault. If anyone's to blame , it's the rigidity of her puritanical religion that allowed the irrational marriage between Hester and Chillingworth
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