Hester Prynne In Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter'
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Walking around and feeling like everyone cannot take their eyes off of you. Feeling like you are an outcast everywhere you go. These are all things that Hester Prynne felt in the novel, “The Scarlet Letter,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. You would think that Hester might be over reacting by feeling like an outsider, and acting like a loner. However, after experiencing the feeling of wearing a letter around for a day, I could vouch for Hester. I didn’t even have to keep it on for life, just a day, and the eyes were beginning to get to me. This is how my experiences relate to those of Hester. After creating my letter, I began to wear it around the school on my way to other classes. At first, I thought that nobody would really care or even notice. But once I started walking around the school, I could feel the eyes of fellow classmates hawking on my letter. It was also worse than I expected. Instead of the usual “look …show more content…
This is that Hester’s letter represented a crime, or a negative aspect of her life, and mine represented a tremendous trait about me. If my letter represented something negative about me, it would have changed my feelings about it drastically. Instead of just noticing people look at my letter, I would feel ashamed when people looked at me. Also, if students actually knew what the letter stood for, I would be very embarrassed. It would make me think much worse of myself. That is how a negative letter would change my perspective on my feelings.
I could not even fathom the internal pain that Hester went through having to wear the scarlet letter. I was starting to be paranoid of people looking at me after a day, plus, the letter was a positive trait. I would definitely be a lot different if I had to wear a scarlet letter every day for the rest of eternity. My experiences changed how I now think of Hester in “The Scarlet Letter.” That is what this social experiment did for
Walking around and feeling like everyone cannot take their eyes off of you. Feeling like you are an outcast everywhere you go. These are all things that Hester Prynne felt in the novel, “The Scarlet Letter,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. You would think that Hester might be over reacting by feeling like an outsider, and acting like a loner. However, after experiencing the feeling of wearing a letter around for a day, I could vouch for Hester. I didn’t even have to keep it on for life, just a day, and the eyes were beginning to get to me. This is how my experiences relate to those of Hester. After creating my letter, I began to wear it around the school on my way to other classes. At first, I thought that nobody would really care or even notice. But once I started walking around the school, I could feel the eyes of fellow classmates hawking on my letter. It was also worse than I expected. Instead of the usual “look …show more content…
This is that Hester’s letter represented a crime, or a negative aspect of her life, and mine represented a tremendous trait about me. If my letter represented something negative about me, it would have changed my feelings about it drastically. Instead of just noticing people look at my letter, I would feel ashamed when people looked at me. Also, if students actually knew what the letter stood for, I would be very embarrassed. It would make me think much worse of myself. That is how a negative letter would change my perspective on my feelings.
I could not even fathom the internal pain that Hester went through having to wear the scarlet letter. I was starting to be paranoid of people looking at me after a day, plus, the letter was a positive trait. I would definitely be a lot different if I had to wear a scarlet letter every day for the rest of eternity. My experiences changed how I now think of Hester in “The Scarlet Letter.” That is what this social experiment did for