Virtuous Woman In The Scarlet Letter
A Virtuous Woman Proverbs 31:10-31 is the bible’s description of a virtuous woman; a universal truth of what it means to be the best woman in the eyes of God. Although quite literally discussing motherhood and marriage, this verse does not mean that it is imperative to be a part of this demographic. However, opening up to these things and preparing for them can make room for God in life as a woman. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester is a representation of a virtuous woman. When read, it may be tough to pinpoint her as being “virtuous” due to her image as an anti-hero, but with further analysis it is evident that she very much is an honorable woman. According to the Puritan definition of virtue, Proverbs
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Hester became pregnant out of wedlock, as well as committed adultery by sleeping with someone besides her husband. Due to this sin she has no man in her life; Pearl has no father figure, so they must provide for themselves. “She provides food for her family” (Proverbs 15). Pearl is Hester’s family, so Hester does what she can to provide a decent life for them. “Lonely as was Hester’s situation, and without a friend on earth who dared to show himself, she, however, incurred no risk of want. She possessed an art that sufficed, even in a land that afforded comparatively little scope for its exercise, to supply food for her thriving infant and herself “ (Hawthorne 85). Hester yields her needlework to put food on the table for her newborn babe and …show more content…
Deep ruffs, painfully wrought bands, and gorgeously embroidered gloves, were all deemed necessary to the official state of men assuming the reins of power; and were readily allowed to individuals dignified by rank or wealth, even while sumptuary laws forbade these and similar extravagances to the plebeian order. In the array of funerals, too,—whether for the apparel of the dead body, or to typify, by manifold emblematic devices of sable cloth and snowy lawn, the sorrow of the survivors,—there was a frequent and characteristic demand for such labor as Hester Prynne could supply. Baby-linen—for babies then wore robes of state—afforded still another possibility of toil and emolument. (Hawthorne
Hester became pregnant out of wedlock, as well as committed adultery by sleeping with someone besides her husband. Due to this sin she has no man in her life; Pearl has no father figure, so they must provide for themselves. “She provides food for her family” (Proverbs 15). Pearl is Hester’s family, so Hester does what she can to provide a decent life for them. “Lonely as was Hester’s situation, and without a friend on earth who dared to show himself, she, however, incurred no risk of want. She possessed an art that sufficed, even in a land that afforded comparatively little scope for its exercise, to supply food for her thriving infant and herself “ (Hawthorne 85). Hester yields her needlework to put food on the table for her newborn babe and …show more content…
Deep ruffs, painfully wrought bands, and gorgeously embroidered gloves, were all deemed necessary to the official state of men assuming the reins of power; and were readily allowed to individuals dignified by rank or wealth, even while sumptuary laws forbade these and similar extravagances to the plebeian order. In the array of funerals, too,—whether for the apparel of the dead body, or to typify, by manifold emblematic devices of sable cloth and snowy lawn, the sorrow of the survivors,—there was a frequent and characteristic demand for such labor as Hester Prynne could supply. Baby-linen—for babies then wore robes of state—afforded still another possibility of toil and emolument. (Hawthorne