Hester Street

What is most remarkable about Hester Prynne is her strength of character. While the author does not give a great deal of information about her life before the book opens, the reader sees her great attitude towards life. Because of her great sin, she was shunned in the Puritan society. Hester’s honesty and her compassion were her two most noticeable traits. Hester was physically described as a tall young woman with a "figure of perfect elegance on a large scale." Her most impressive feature

honest member of the community, as evidenced by Hester Prynne 's transformation while wearing the letter, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale’s eventual demise, and Sir Roger Chillingworth’s revenge-based life. Hester’s sin and her recovery from her sin exemplify the morals in The Scarlet Letter. At the beginning of the novel, she commits adultery and is publicly shunned for it. The townspeople, who represent society as a whole in the novel, consider Hester to be a “brazen hussy,” and treat her accordingly

Hester Prynne -- adulteress and sinner, but also strong, courageous and kind. She lives with the first two words as her identity, with the scarlet “A” as her name tag; A reminder to everyone and herself of her sins. In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Hawthorne expresses his belief that everyone has an equal potential for sin, what causes people to be different from each other is how they react to their sin. The sins committed by people can affect them differently than how it may affect

Hawthorne shows that through the development of Hester Prynne in the Scarlet Letter, we have to pay for committed sins, but instead of feeling sorry for ourselves about it, we have to embrace it and make our lives better from that sin. It chapter five of the story, it says “Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast,—at her, the child of honorable parents,—at her, the mother of a babe, that would hereafter be a woman, —at her, who had once

In the novel, “The Scarlet Letter,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne Hester is defined through social actions and philosophies as an object, sinner, victim, and an independent women. The Scarlet Letter “A” is meant to be a symbol of shame. It was meant to single out the wearer for their sin and ostracize them from the community, although it may seem harsh and unusual, the punishment is extraordinarily lenient in comparison to the Biblical and legal punishments that were available at the time. The Bible

used symbolism in some way were Hester, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth, the forest, Pearl and many more were in the story. Hester was one the most if not the most popular fictional, female character in American fiction. Hester Prynne, dark beautiful of form and featured, and unmistakably of genteel background, was the first great female character in American fiction” (Wagenknecht 64). Hester is a perfect example when talking about symbolism. In The Scarlet Letter Hester has committed one of the worst

way of persuading himself of separation. His purpose is to shed the guilt he ancestrally bears from the witch trials in the feministic, romantic tale of Hester and Dimmesdale. The self-proclaimed romantic author of The Scarlet Letter uses the letter attached to Hester’s bosom as a symbol of Alienation intensely exploited through himself, Hester and Dimmesdale. “The Custom House” opens the book by describing the narrator’s place of work with interruptions from Hawthorne speaking of his lineage where

easily observed through both Hester and Dimmesdale. With these two characters, the novel shows how they deal with their own sins privately and publicly as well as their capability to cope with their sins. As said before, the moral of the story was directly stated by Dimmesdale, “Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may

letter has a major bearing on the unfolding of the plot. Hester Prynne, an adulteress, is spared death for her sin, but she must wear a scarlet letter “A” for the rest of her life. Her husband, who has been living with Native Americans for the past two years, arrives in town just in time to see her holding a baby and being publicly humiliated for the crime of adultery and vows to get revenge. As

Following his arrest, Moore’s mugshot was shown all over the news and he had a criminal trial. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne has committed a horrible sin in her Puritan community, she has committed adultery. Her punishment was being branded with a piece of scarlet cloth shaped like the letter A on her chest for the rest of her life. Hester must deal with the continuous judgment of the townspeople. Hawthorne and Moore, both described in their novels the effect humiliation has