Hester's Slut 'In In The Blood'

The first character guilty of hypocrisy in the puritan society is Hester Prynne. Everyone she loves, is done so in a hypocritical manner. She manages to hide the man in her affair claiming a deep devotion towards him. This leads the readers to conclude that Hester is in fact in love with Arthur Dimmesdale. However, she is a hypocrite for claiming that she loves him yet says nothing when, her husband, Roger Chillingworth, slowly tortures him for seven years. She loves Arthur plenteous to not expose him to the puritans but, not sufficiently to inform him of her knowledge of Chillingworth's cruel intentions against him. Another victim of her sin is her own daughter Pearl. Hester loves her daughter enough to sacrifice to feed and clothe her but, not enough to let her have a father. Despite previously stated, Hester also participates

Everyone is given a name when they are born. Their name will become the most important part of their lives. With a name people can identify each other and can gain status and fame through name. Without a name nobody will know who is who or how to identify each other. Not only are names important to each individual 's, every name has some sort of power with it. Names can also be soiled and be ruined with a bad reputation. Everything can be determined by a name. The characters in the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller have a lot of pride. Many are good citizens and have good names. John Proctor is a good citizen who has good morals and tries to do the right things. He has built up a lot of respect for his name. Danforth, the judge, also tries to protect his name by making the right decisions and not back down from them. In The Crucible, Miller uses John Proctor and Judge Danforth to show what some people are willing to do to protect their name because their name are a very powerful and important weapon that can support their life.

Lawrence’s admirable diction makes Hester out to be undeniably unique in her beauty, making her stand out from the other women in the village and thus seen as an icon. He then takes this concept further by using sarcasm to mock her selfish beauty. She is “put upon the scaffold [to] worship her there” just so all will start “envying [her] sin, and beating [her] because [she’s] stolen an advantage over [the villagers]” (Lawrence). By showing off her scarlet letter and accepting worship, Hester uses her sin as a way to get pity from the public. Lawrence’s use of the admirable diction points out the irony of the situation. As a hero is worshipped for good deeds, Hester uses her looks to turn the tables and get people to worship her for her sin. D.H. Lawrence sees her as a goddess, “so picturesque in her attire and mien” (Lawrence). Hester Prynne is so beautiful that she is as unnatural and fake as a painting. She deceives the public eye into making them see her as a picture perfect woman. This is a selfish lie to manipulate people into loving and adoring her.

A women was not allowed to have the same sexual drive as men the idea of sex was to be kept quiet and hidden in the home. The women Hester Prynne is is an emblem of a women who would be idealized years later in the time of the feminist movement. A character who represented the breaking of a social contract and who was labeled as an outcast because of it. As a soon to be women who is also a millennial it comes as a shock how women used to be treated. To me it seems as though the time we live in now is different but not completely a female is entitled to lay with whoever she wants but she will still be shamed for it

The friction between the two parties is caused by the Puritan societies views of transgressors, in this instance Hester. Hester’s accord with her sexuality,

Hester committed adultery. Hester was branded with her sin, and she was forced to live with the guilt over her head for the rest of her life. “Hester Prynne was now fully sensible of the deep injury for which she was responsible to this unhappy man, in permitting him to lie for so many years, or, indeed, for a single moment, at the mercy of one, whose purposes could not be other than malevolent” (Source G). In the novel, the Puritans view Hester as more than just a sinner; she is an abhorred criminal. She cheated on Chillingsworth with Dimmesdale, and has to live with Pearl being a consequence of her selfish mistake. Hester’s consequence was more than just a consequence, it was humiliation. Hester shouldn’t have to face the embarrassment of her wrong doings. The Scarlet Letter laws apply to Hester because she is branded with her mistake. She is humiliated every day for making a simple mistake. Hester’s Scarlet Letter was much too harsh for her mistake.

Throughout the book, The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne, there is much talk and criticism of Hester. The idea of hypocrisy, the thought and claim to have moral standards but ones behavior does not equal, is prominent in the lives of each character throughout the book. Hawthorne uses hypocrisy as a way to display the moral of his characters and setting. In the scarlet letter, the characters all display some sort of hypocrisy.

In Marie Lu’s dystopian book Legend, there are a wide variety of characters with varying and backgrounds. Although the tale follows the lives of young girl June and outlaw Daniel (nicknamed Day), many side characters are also introduced and developed throughout the course of the book. All of these characters possess interesting names that enhance the plot in certain ways, and while most of the characters’ names fit them, some do not.

From the beginning, Hester shows a significant amount of proudness and holding herself in a respectable manner. While walking towards the scaffold she, "...never appeared more ladylike, in the antique interpretation of the term, then as she issued from the prison" (p. 61). This was the time where she should 've felt the most ashamed and guilty since she was to be presented to the whole town as an adulteress. Being a mother to her child was the first priority than to worry about people 's remarks and rude stares. When Chillingworth interviews Hester in an attempt to find out who the other adulterer was, Hester says, "I will keep thy secret, as I have his" (p. 81). She would rather be the center of unwanted attention than to reveal her lover 's name and subsequently ruin his life. The man who impregnated her was someone who had honor behind his name, while she would just have a child to

Hypocrisy—the dishonest action of claiming to possess standards when one does not conform to it in actuality— is a deplorable recurring trait that has an unfortunate toll in the community. After Hester Prynne commits adultery with Reverend Dimmesdale, Hester becomes pregnant and Dimmesdale decided not to reveal this secret within the Puritanical society in order to uphold his reputation. Unfortunately for Hester, her sin was discovered when she gave birth to her daughter Pearl, and she was punished. Dimmesdale was the idol in the

To begin, Hester is one of the most good hearted caring person in the book even though she committed a terrible sin adultery. Hester would always want to give out a helping hand to the less fortunate. For example the book says (80) “Hester bestowed all her superfluous in charity, on wretches less miserable than herself, and who not infrequently insulted the hand that fed them.” Everything that Hester did to help out the charity didn 't matter to the community they still treated her like she didn’t belong anywhere at all for example this page says (49) “This women has brought shame upon us all and ought to die.”The town

A name usually has a deeper meaning behind the choosing, whether the meaning is strong, intelligent, or beautiful. Pearl, the daughter of convicted adulterer, Hester has many different reasonings behind the choosing of her name. Pearl is a metaphor for the price she paid for conceiving a child out of wedlock. She sacrificed her reputation in the town, her way of life, her youth, freedom, and happiness to bear her lover’s child. Her child came at great price for her, and took a lot of struggling to obtain her much like a pearl in a clam. Hester may have gained a beautiful child, though “the pang of [her crime] will be always in her heart” (Hawthorne 36). Her crime will always be a constant reminder as long as her child shall live, but her

In today’s generation people have different meanings of the word “slut.” Men sometimes use the word differently than women. For example, “A Toronto police officer told a crowd of college women that if they wanted to avoid sexual assault, they shouldn’t dress like sluts.” Women are more likely to be called a slut than men. There is two completely different definitions of this word from the dictionary and a woman’s point of view.

In the novel, Hester Prynne was looked down upon due to her reputation from wearing the scarlet letter "A" on her bosom. In the novel, it appeared that Hester was intimidated by Roger Chillingworth which was why she promised to keep his identity a secret. The relationship between Mistress Hibbins and Hester was very strange in the way that both characters were females, but Mistress Hibbins had a higher status in society which made her feel superior to Hester. Hester had a complex relationship with Reverend Dimmesdale in the way that they both respected each other especially when they were hidden from the public eye. The idea of masculinity and femininity was prevalent throughout the novel and was seen in characters including Hester, Roger,

    Slut. It’s an easy title to lay upon women to degrade them. The word it used by both men and women alike. Being called a slut has become one of the worst things to be considered as a girl. Typically a slut