Hester Prynne
A feminist is an advocate or supporter of the right and equality of women in many ways, be it the political, social or economy rights. Evoked during the 19th century, women of the time began to fight for equality between both genders and a chance of autonomy for the women to speak for themselves. From the years when the constant fights to break away from the long before traditional perception of a woman’s behaviors, feminists are portrayed like the heroes of the Venus race, who are strong willed, courageous, outspoken and autonomous. Two prominent figures that were born across the globe and ages came in as inspirational women of all time. Hester Prynne, an outcast in of the 17th century Boston Puritan’s society, is the protagonist in Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. She is not much different when compared to the 2012 orchid steel of Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy movement leader who is still fighting for her country to this very day. This essay will enlighten the readers on the backgrounds of the heroines, as well as their similarities which can be compared from their various attributes.
Hester Prynne was a young lady when she was out-lawed by the 17th century puritan society after having found out she had a baby out of wedlock. Her husband, who had sent her off earlier to wait for him at the Masachussetts Bay Colony never returned after two years. She married him when she was still a child and this made her still very young when she was alone waiting for her husband. The sudden child whom she bore whilst people knowing her husband was still away was a strong evidence of her adultery to a person whom she tried hard to not say the name, only later at the end of the story, he was the minister of the city, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale whom she truly loved. Due to her sin of adultery, she was punished by the society to wear the scarlet letter of the alphabet ‘A’ for a life time and had to endure the public shame to parade her guilt all
Hester Prynne was a young lady when she was out-lawed by the 17th century puritan society after having found out she had a baby out of wedlock. Her husband, who had sent her off earlier to wait for him at the Masachussetts Bay Colony never returned after two years. She married him when she was still a child and this made her still very young when she was alone waiting for her husband. The sudden child whom she bore whilst people knowing her husband was still away was a strong evidence of her adultery to a person whom she tried hard to not say the name, only later at the end of the story, he was the minister of the city, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale whom she truly loved. Due to her sin of adultery, she was punished by the society to wear the scarlet letter of the alphabet ‘A’ for a life time and had to endure the public shame to parade her guilt all
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