Hester Prynne's Changing Letter

The Changing Letter In our world societies are always corrupt, sloppy and derived off the right path. As many societies prove to be successful time after time they will fall just as in past history. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne conveys a society converting to the acceptance of Hester Prynne, portraying the decline of American puritanism. Puritan society neglects the adulteress Hester in the beginning of the novel, but in turn the author Hawthorne who lived in the era of American romanticism illustrates her to be a society changing attribution. The Scarlet Letter displays Hester as a bold, and relentless character whose ideal representation of the shift away from American puritanism. In the beginning of the novel Hawthorne’s
The ‘able’ comes from ‘capable’ because of Hester being such a bold women she transforms her image mentally and physically in the community being “warm and rich; a wellspring of human tenderness, unfailing to every real demand, and inexhaustible by the largest.” (Hawthorne 145). It begins to show Hester is becoming less as individual but rather a helper to the puritan society. She is accepted as ‘able’ due to the help around the community, and with others. The society has a great magnitude of effect on the individual, and determines the well being of Hester. Once the secret of Dimmesdale was released to puritan society, it destroyed the once high puritan society, and began to fall as most do. Hester Prynne and her daughter Pearl finally were accepted into society but then the society fell. As Hawthorne shows in the conclusion that “Hester Prynne had returned, and taken up her long-forsaken shame!” (Hawthorne 238). This compels the reader to understand Hester’s true motives, which occurred to be helping others who existed low in hierarchy. She was accepted as a part of the community because she finally made the community into something it wasn’t