Perfection In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

Hester is a bad mother, but she should be able to keep Pearl. Hester should be able to

In committing adultery, Hester caused the community to shun and ridicule her. “So that both men and women, who had been acquainted with Hester Prynne, were now impressed as if they beheld her for the first time, was that Scarlet Letter… It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity and inclosing her by herself” (51). This quote is stating because of the Scarlet A, Hester is alienated from the rest of the community. The Scarlet A separates Hester from everyone else, even her child Pearl. It stands out because it is colorful and this convoys that Hester is a sinner because in the Puritan religion it is believed that colorful clothing is only to be worn by the Lord. If you follow the Puritan faith, you have ti wear dark and dreary clothing. Therefore, wearing a Scarlet A on her bosom instantly makes her different than everyone else in the community and causes everyone who sees it instantly know she is different from everyone else. The Scarlet A written on Hester’s bosom alienates her from the

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, a woman named Hester Prynne is found guilty of committing adultery. She lives in the Puritan settlement of Boston, Massachusetts where if the town’s laws are broken, the culprit suffers. Throughout the novel the Puritans ridicule and mock Hester for her actions. Through Hawthorne’s use of diction and imagery he exemplifies his disapproval for the unyielding religious punishments of the Puritans.

Enough evidence was given in the book that Hester deserves the punishment. To prove that she does, Hester was raised as a Puritan so she knew what would be the consequences she has committed adultery and is left with a baby alone to raise without a father role model. As well she is not suited to be a mother. She can’t keep Pearl.

Hester Prynne goes against her society 's look on gender. When she has Pearl which is another man 's daughter. Hester keeps her daughter even though it went against what God said back in that time but she gave her daughter everything she needed. She never gave up on herself she kept on giving everything she had so she wouldn 't cave into what people thought. Her and Dimmsdale found something special in each other and went on to move to England together with Pearl. Hester Prynne gains victory in her struggle against her society 's gender norms through bettering herself, being a strong maternal figure, and finding love.

Hester Prynne has been given the scarlet “A” to show to all that she has committed a terrible sin, and has broken the sacred promise she made to her husband. However, instead of finding humility and sorrow from it, she takes pride in the letter. What is she trying to

Within the past year, the treatment and perceptions of women have been challenged due to the various marches and movements. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s romance, The Scarlet Letter, presents how women were viewed in a Puritan society, falling into a rigid dichotomy of either being the “saint” or “sinner.” This is otherwise known as the “Madonna/Whore complex,” which is explored through the life of the novel’s protagonist, Hyster Prynne. Her struggles and experiences through this dichotomy ultimately affect her both physically and emotionally as it represses her femininity.

Hester 's punishment was made public so she could see she had sinned and would repent. The government ruling the town would do this so she would come back to the church with pearl. People today that commit adultery wouldn 't publicize what they did, They would 've kept it a secret. In both ways the adulterers are punished but in different ways. Present day people that commit this usually lose their spouse, become judged but those that know them, and would have an unbearable amount of guilt.

In the fifth and the sixth chapter, it talks about Hester’s interaction with Pearl, her daughter. I find it sad how each time she interacts with Pearl, Hester is forced to reconsider the life she has chosen for herself. It makes her rethink how she got to this point in

This is an example of an idiom used in chapter 7, The Governor 's Hall. This isn’t supposed to be taken literally, but it is used to describe to the reader the light of innocence inside Pearl. The fire represents that light which is seen in and throughout her small body. She is considered by many to be a devil child with this light shining through her. The second part of the quote describes how Hester did not know in the moment of her crime that Pearl would be the consequence. She has pretty much ruined her reputation and integrity by doing such a terrible act. Now, Pearl is the only thing sunshine in her life that she can go to and spend time raising. Pearl is the only light in her darkness. Hester’s life is much darker now because she didn’t

The Scarlet Letter begins with a Puritan village in seventeenth-century, Boston. A young woman is seen leaving a jail with a red “A” on her chest, and carrying an infant in her arms. This woman is Hester Prynne, with her child Pearl. After being harassed by the crowd of onlookers,

The story of the scarlet letter begins in seventeenth-century Boston, then a Puritan settlement. A woman named Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her baby girl named Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter “A” on her breast. A man in the crowd tells a

Now, let’s move to the analysis of the cheerful character of the novel - Hester’s daughter. Pearl, from the very first pages stands out against the dark Puritan society not only by her bright clothes, but also by her indomitable spirit. But we cannot say that Pearl is a

In the novel The Scarlet Letter, the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote about the corruption in the Puritan community during the mid 1600s. “Even though they believed they could not earn salvation by righteousness, they rigorously sought to be righteous.”(“About the Novel” 8). Appalled by their tenets he wrote The Scarlet Letter to demonstrate how there were a number of paradoxes within them and their lifestyles. In particular, Hawthorne focused on adultery, a very scandalous topic to the Puritans. Before the Scarlet Letter begins, Hester Prynne and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale have committed adultery. Resulting in Hester having to wear a scarlet letter over her breast while Dimmesdale kept it a secret. Arthur Dimmesdale suffered more than Hester

humiliated for having Pearl and after going threw all that torment she deserves to keep her