life got flip turned upside down ‚ and I’d like to take a minute just to sit right here‚ I’ll tell you how Hester became infamous in a town called Boston. So all and all through this story we were supposed to get out a few things‚ how Hester was an object‚ sinner‚ or something else‚ which I’ve forgotten because I didn’t think it was true‚ and how in the end she became a winner. For me‚ Hester started as a sinner‚ became an object used by the town‚ and in the end never became a winner‚ which I know
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affair through the resulting pregnancy of Hester Prynne. Throughout her punishment‚ Hester refuses to reveal the identity of the child’s father. Hester Prynne‚ after her husband disappeared many years ago‚ has been charged with adultery. Fact is proven by her otherwise unexplainable pregnancy. The mother and child were put in the public eye on the scaffold merely yesterday where Mrs. Prynne refused to disclose her guilty partner. As punishment Mrs. Prynne will be wearing the scarlet letter—the golden
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“The motherchild relationship...requires the most intense love on the mother’s side‚” according to Erich Fromm‚ a German psychologist. The love that Hester expresses toward her daughter Pearl in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ and the lessons that she teaches her are what makes Hester a great mother. In return‚ Pearl improves Hester’s public image with her beauty and keeps Hester’s emotions and actions in check. The way these two characters subconsciously complement each other forms a
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Thou shalt not commit adultery. It is one of the simplest rules of the Ten Commandments. Love and be loved by only one man or one woman. If one breaks this commandment‚ they are condemned a sinner. Hester Prynne in “The Scarlet Letter” commits such a sin‚ and in her doing‚ is punished harshly by the community. But when taking into account the situation‚ is her punishment just? Could Hester’s punishment be considered too severe‚ or are the perceptions of society on adultery too flexible? The 1600’s
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twisted relationship. Although Hester did sin‚ she remained true to herself and wore the A as her duty. However‚ Dimmesdale‚ whom was the dad‚ preached and kept punishing her even though he committed the same sin. I agree with Carpenter and his views. Hester’s sin was not completely her fault. The author explains‚ “Because Hester Prynne was so perfectly loyal and loving that she would never abandon her lover‚ she was condemned by the Puritans” (Carpenter). I believe Hester never tried finding a way out
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The protagonist of The Scarlet Letter‚ Hester Prynne‚ struggles with the perceptions placed upon her by the society of Boston. Although Hester initially rebels openly‚ she is not egotistical like Abigail and she eventually abandons overt rebellion for peace of mind and understanding of the self. While it is true that her affair with another man constitutes a sin‚ she remains a woman of virtue. In the puritan society‚ relationships are not supposed to be broken unless by divorce‚ even if the husband
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There are many different aspects of the novel that argue if Hester is the best citizen or the worst. The Novel‚ The scarlet Letter‚ written by Nathanial Hawthorne is very fluent and punctilious. Many people argue weather Hester‚ the main character‚ is a bad citizen or a good citizen. In my perspective‚ Hester is a very commendable and gentle young lady. In This essay I will discuss my interpretation of the reasons she is good and the reasons she is bad. Concluding this I will explain the crimes she
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“Goodwives”‚ said a hard-featured dame of fifty‚ “I’ll tell ye a piece of my mind. It would be greatly for the public behoof‚ if we women‚ being of mature age and church-members in a good repute‚ should have the handling of such malfactresses as this Hester Prynne. What think ye‚ gossip? If the hussy stood up for judgement before us five‚ that are now here in a knot
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cheat‚ to look into an eye that recognizes me for what I am!’” (148) Hester and Dimmesdale meet at the forest and have a conversation. Dimmesdale has been lying to the church officials and to the townspeople for the sin he has committed for seven years. To the townspeople‚ he is a respectable minister loved by everyone‚ but in reality‚ he is a sinner. Provided that‚ Dimmesdale feels relief speaking to Hester. “’We are not‚ Hester‚ the worst sinners in the world. There is one worse than even the polluted
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he who pays her for her sin?” (Cruz 296). In the 1600’s‚ when a woman commits adultery and brings shame upon her husband she is often put to death as punishment. However‚ in Hester Prynne’s case she is shamed with a scarlet letter and excluded from society. In the novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ Hester is forced to wear a Scarlet Letter “A” upon be bosom for the rest of her life. Yet‚ why is one person punished when the act of adultery must be committed by two? Hester’s partner
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