How Does Nathaniel Hawthorne Use Symbols To Project Hester Prynne

Hawthorne chooses to have Hester overcome her struggles. At the end of the book, Hester finds at least some degree of peace. The struggles and pain she went through were not pleasant, but they did provoke her to improve her relationship with God. Her burden seems lessened and if there is nothing else for her to be joyful about, her daughter Pearl has adapted and thrived in her new life. Hester Prynne shows mercy upon the sick and does charity work even when it goes unappreciated. She gave her time and effort to help the poor even when they rebuked her as well. Her dedication to try and fix her mistakes is admirable and the reader feels as if Hester has really changed for the better. The change in Hester makes the people respect her and come to her for advice at the end of the story. In chapter 13, Hawthorne writes about how the Puritans have mixed feelings about Hester, but the majority of the people now forgive and hold her in high regard. “They said it meant ‘Able’; so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman’s strength.” (pg. 158) This quote shows how the interpretation of the letter and of Hester herself has changed. The new view of Hester gained by the Puritans is based on her response to the scarlet letter, a symbol meant to ruin her but in reality it made her

Hester Prynne was the main character in the Scarlet Letter. Hester sin was committing adultery with minister Arthur Dimmsdale. Birthing a child named Pearl of pure sin. By committing her sin they punished her. “‘If thou feelest it

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, is set in Puritan times, following the lives of Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth after Hester’s crime of adultery. While Hester Prynne successfully processes her emotions and refuses to cave in on herself, the men in the novel resort to revenge. When one devotes themselves to vengeance, they become consumed by it. Reverend Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth both spend the novel taking revenge on themselves and someone else, respectively, leading to their decline of life and character.

They were supposed to follow the strict rules of the bible and be graceful and controlled. Hawthorne disagrees with this, and uses Hester to show that the society at that time was crazy. Hester makes a living for herself and her daughter through her skills as a seamstress, she is technically single, she gives back immensely to the community, and she is thriving the way she is. She is proving she doesn’t need a man in her life to live. Hawthorne would be pleased at how our society is.

Jennifer Weiner, a writer, once claimed that: “Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.” The same is true for the social status of individuals. The character Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, among the lowest social status in the Puritan community of Salem, is exploited by the higher status individuals in her community and therefore they are an antagonist. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author suggests that the antagonist is not Roger Chillingworth but rather Puritan society itself because society fails to attempt to understand Hester’s situation, prevents the reunification of Hester and Dimmesdale and refuses to reshape its opinion and alienates her until she becomes beneficial to it.

Hawthorne doesn’t reveal any information about Hester before the actual book starts. The author brings these attributes of Hester to our attention. We come to a clearer understanding about Hester being a strong independent woman implied by the persona. Hester being publicly shamed, Hester’s confrontation with Chillingworth, Hester being threatened with Pearl’s separation, and Hester contributing to her society show how the author liked Hester; the events portrayed her in a good light.

Early in the novel, Hawthorne establishes Hester’s role as a martyr. He portrays her as an angel unjustly subject to the scrutinization of others. Similar to Raskolnikov’s reaction to Sonya, the crowd, meant to chastise her for her adulterous sin, cannot help but notice the innocent beauty that surrounds her. Hester, like Sonya, faces the burden of social alienation for the sake of

The Scarlet Letter {{italicize/underline the names of novels}} takes Hester Prynne as its protagonist. Beside her, there are some other characters which make significant parts in the story such as Pearl, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth. They are all involved with sin in Puritan society; Hester committed adultery with Dimmesdale, and Pearl is an outcome of the adultery between them. The sin of Chillingworth is that he always thinks about the revenge on Dimmesdale for taking his wife. However, there is one real villain in this story.

Hester Prynne is the protagonist of The Scarlet Letter, a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. She was a beautiful woman who, because of her adultery, experienced persecution and was ostracized by everyone in her town. Her shame and guilt gave her an understanding of sin and redemption. She serves as an example of someone who is rejected by society and, because of it, grows in both strength and wisdom. Hester’s sin overshadowed her beauty and talent, but her humble and generous deeds gained her respect over many years.

Can a peice of fabric really change who you are and define you as a person? Nathaniel Hawthorne challenges us with this question in his novel The Scarlet Letter. In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne uses the symbol of the scarlet letter to depict sin and adultery commited by Hester Prynne. Hawthorne creates the symbolism of the letter "A" to have different meanings. As the novel unfolds, the meanings of the letter "A" on Hester Prynne's bosom changes, from adultery to able to angel.

For many, the painting Starry Night, by Vincent Van Gogh, is simply paint on a canvas. Created in the summer of 1889, while Van Gogh was in a mental asylum, others perceive the painting as a message of Van Gogh’s desire for acceptance and normalcy. Heavily influenced by the Expressionist movement, Starry Night is a physical representation of Van Gogh’s feelings of melencholy during his stay in the asylum. His troubled mind allowed Van Gogh to create a painting with a yearning mood. Throughout the years, people have tried to understand Van Gogh’s reason for painting Starry Night. One way that people have used to try to understand him is through ekphrastic poetry, which is poetry about a work of art, such as Anne Sexton’s ‘The Starry Night” poem and Don McClean’s “Vincent (Starry, Starry Night).” While “The Starry Night” by Anne Sexton depicts Starry Night as having an ominous mood, the empathetic mood in “Vincent (Starry, Starry Night),” by Don McClean, with its use of sympathetic diction, detail, and figurative language best mirrors that of the original painting.

I chose to do my multi genre project on the Twenties. The Twenties have also interested me and that unit was by far my favorite this semester, so it only seemed right to go deeper into and expand my learning on it even more. To portray the different changes and new inventions that came about during this era, I did a drawing. In my drawing, there is a young flapper girl and a large thought bubble. Inside this bubble, it shows her reflecting on what has happened during the past ten years.

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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne was a descendant of, who he despised and thought to be hypocrites. Hawthorne, had a cynical view towards Puritans, believing they were intolerant and cruel. He was so discontent with his past, that he even changed his last name, to prevent any connection with puritan society. Nathaniel Hawthorne makes it his duty to victimize Hester Prynne, the main character in the Scarlet Letter. Hester, accused of adultery in the vicious Puritan community, finds herself struggling between guilt and innocence. Lost between her natural desire for a relationship, which she found in Reverend Dimmesdale, and her duty to maintain a relationship with her seven years gone husband, Roger Chillingworth, Hester finds herself in the form of her

Hester Prynne, a character within The Scarlet Letter, is a prime example of Hawthorne's common transformation of individuals within his books. These mutations involve the qualities and attributes of her physical appearance, feminine emotions, and reputation among the townspeople. Throughout the novel, the mentioned elements of Hester's character develop and change several times, providing the reader with better understanding of the influence that the scarlet letter and other characters have on her.