Hester Prynne Transformation
Liars,cheaters, adulterers, and gossipers, are all types of people that you wouldn't expect in the Puritan time period of 1620. Unfortunately, Nathaniel Hawthorne's, Scarlet letter Hester Prynne was an adulterer. Hester is the protagonist in the novel as well as a round character. She changed throughout the novel as well as the leading character. Hester got punished and had to wear the letter “A” on her chest to represent that she committed adultery. She also had to stand on the scaffold and live with pearl. Hester Prynne cheated on her husband, Roger Chillingworth with Arthur Dimmesdale. Prynne also ended up having her daughter pearl with Arthur Dimmesdale who she was with while Chillingworth was in Europe. With huge quality and overpowering
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Hester's daughter is pearl, so since hester went through all the horrific events pearl was bullied for it. “Pearl would grow positively terrible in her puny wrath, snatching up stones to fling at them, with shrill, incoherent exclamations that made her mother tremble because they had so much the sound of a witch’s anathemas in some unknown tongue”(Hawthorne 70). Hester feels appalling, as she has begun to feel that she has ruined Pearl’s only chance of happiness. Hester begins to work hard and strong to show that she cares about Pearl and give her a future in Boston. The hard work of Hester’s pays off but of course will never be completely better as she wears the scarlet letter on her chest. Later on, Hester gains enough confidence to take the scarlet letter off, but Pearl immediately tells her to put it back on. Pearl showed that there will always be sin in her life as she has showed it when she told Hester to put the scarlet letter back on. Pearl grows up to be a successful adult that when Chillingworth passes away he leaves his extensive fortunate to Pearl. “Pearl the elf child, the demon offspring, as some people, up to that epoch, persisted in considering her, became the richest heiress of her day in the New World”(Hawthorne 201). Through all the grief Pearl has faced in the novel she has finally overcome the sin that Hester gave her. After the long battle of public ridicule and punishment by isolation, Hester is able to rest easy knowing that Pearl was able to leave Boston and pursue a life that did not revolve around the Scarlet Letter and her mother’s
Hester's daughter is pearl, so since hester went through all the horrific events pearl was bullied for it. “Pearl would grow positively terrible in her puny wrath, snatching up stones to fling at them, with shrill, incoherent exclamations that made her mother tremble because they had so much the sound of a witch’s anathemas in some unknown tongue”(Hawthorne 70). Hester feels appalling, as she has begun to feel that she has ruined Pearl’s only chance of happiness. Hester begins to work hard and strong to show that she cares about Pearl and give her a future in Boston. The hard work of Hester’s pays off but of course will never be completely better as she wears the scarlet letter on her chest. Later on, Hester gains enough confidence to take the scarlet letter off, but Pearl immediately tells her to put it back on. Pearl showed that there will always be sin in her life as she has showed it when she told Hester to put the scarlet letter back on. Pearl grows up to be a successful adult that when Chillingworth passes away he leaves his extensive fortunate to Pearl. “Pearl the elf child, the demon offspring, as some people, up to that epoch, persisted in considering her, became the richest heiress of her day in the New World”(Hawthorne 201). Through all the grief Pearl has faced in the novel she has finally overcome the sin that Hester gave her. After the long battle of public ridicule and punishment by isolation, Hester is able to rest easy knowing that Pearl was able to leave Boston and pursue a life that did not revolve around the Scarlet Letter and her mother’s