by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This essay discusses how Hester is a victim of her social pressure. She was punished for something she did to achieve her dream of having someone that loves her. Hester committed adultery with minister Dimmesdale and had a child with him‚ Pearl. Her punishment was to stand on the scaffold with her child and wear the letter A on her breast as a sign of her “crime”. Due to the strictures of the puritan society‚ Hester Prynne suffers from public shaming. She almost lost her only
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outwards relates to the characters Hester Prynne‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ and Roger Chillingworth. For example‚ through the towns people considered Hester a sinner however she is a good person inside by helping the poor and such. Dimmesdale was the minister of the town‚ and everyone thinks he would do no sin but in fact he is Pearl’s father. Chillingworth worth gave the idea that he was a physician but he was there in the town to seek revenge on Hester. For instance‚ Hester Prynne is consider a sinner in the
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of the first novels ever written to feature a strong female character as the lead role. Hester Prynne is punished for committing adultery against her ex husband Roger Dimmesdale. She is to be punished for seven‚ horrific‚ lonely years of her and her daughter‚ Pearl‚ lives. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hester Prynne is punished in three different ways. One of the three types of punishments Hester is going through is imprisonment. She is arrested on a charge for adultery against her
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In the beginning of the book Hester Prynne is a very kind woman. She ended up making a poor decision that will affect the rest of her life. Its life everyone makes mistakes we’re all human.But what shes does is something she will have to live with for the rest of her life and never be able to take it back.In this book The Scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthrone.Hester is the main character‚and let’s get to the point;adulteress. In the beginning of the book‚Hester is forced to marry Roger Chillingworth
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Hester Prynne The character of Hester Prynne changed significantly throughout the novel "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hester Prynne‚ through the eyes of the Puritans‚ is an extreme sinner; she has gone against the Puritan ways‚ committing adultery. For this irrevocably harsh sin‚ she must wear a symbol of shame for the rest of her life. From the beginning‚ we see that Hester Prynne is a young and beautiful woman who has brought a child into the world with an unknown father. She is
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known as Boston‚ Massachusetts. Hawthorne wrote about a young lady named Hester Prynne who commits the sin of adultery with Reverend Dimmsdale while still technically married to Roger Chillingworth‚ who she was arranged to marry. Hester’s sin is exposed when she becomes pregnant with her daughter Pearl. All of the characters live in the same Puritan town‚ Hester and Pearl are outcasted from the town because of the sin Hester committed‚ while Chillingworth pretends to
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In the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hester Prynne is the protagonist. Hester is a good person who made a bad decision‚ which makes her a relatable character regardless of the year this book is read in. Hester is the protagonist‚ but at times she does seem more like a victim than heroine. “[Hester] was tall‚ with a figure of perfect elegance‚ on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair‚ so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam‚ and a face which‚ besides being
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In chapter 8‚ Hester Prynne is facing whether or not Pearl will be separated from her. Though she is an ill-fit parent and she will be raising Pearl alone in seclusion and sin‚ she has every right to keep her child. Pearl will be a living reminder of her mother’s sin‚ and it will give Hester the opportunity to use her sin as a lesson to her daughter. Moreover‚ it is known that a child’s relationship with their biological mother benefits both the child and the mother. In multiple cases throughout
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Hester Prynne‚ the main character of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”‚ is definitely a hero. While she may not conform to one’s typical idea of a hero‚ a perfectly righteous‚ fearless‚ and active force‚ she shows her heroic qualities throughout the entire story. The most frequent definition of a hero is someone that possesses courage‚ which is the ability to face danger or difficulty either without fear‚ or by pushing through obstacles regardless of fear. Even without taking action or starting
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In chapter two of The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne describes Hester Prynne as she stands on a pedestal in front of her community and gets publicly condemned for her adultery. Hawthorne shows the irony in the situation through the symbol of Pearl being just as sinful as the letter A embroidered on Hester’s clothing. He also irony irony in describing the A and how it is so similar to how Hester herself is portrayed. Lastly‚ Hawthorne describes Hester’s physical beauty and the irony of how the
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