Hester Prynne In The Scarlett Letter
The Scarlet Letter is one 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 ex husband, Roger Dimmesdale. Not only is she having to remain inside prison walls trying to pass time, she is having to take her care of her daughter, Pearl while she is an infant until roughly seven years. She is able
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During Hester’s time in prison, she speaks with her estranged husband, who has taken an assumed name (Shmoop Editorial Team). Hester wants to keep Chillingworth’s identity a secret from this “estranged husband” but at some point, it has to come out of her mouth. Hester is wanting to also keep her secret lovers identity a secret as well. Is it Chillingworth himself or some other guy that doesn’t even get mentioned in the book? So after all that is going down at the prison, Hester decides to sew for a living to help support Pearl and herself. She sewed the letter herself to show everybody what she did and wore it on her chest everywhere she went, but that’s something that will come up later in the essay. The next type of punishment for Hester is the scaffold displayed publicly in front of everybody so that they may see her. Whenever Hester was given her daily freedom from the prison, it seems like she would wind up at the scaffold. The scaffold is always being used and occupied by Hester and even Dimmesdale himself. There are three scenes in which the scaffold is being used by Hester and Dimmesdale, two of them coming in the
During Hester’s time in prison, she speaks with her estranged husband, who has taken an assumed name (Shmoop Editorial Team). Hester wants to keep Chillingworth’s identity a secret from this “estranged husband” but at some point, it has to come out of her mouth. Hester is wanting to also keep her secret lovers identity a secret as well. Is it Chillingworth himself or some other guy that doesn’t even get mentioned in the book? So after all that is going down at the prison, Hester decides to sew for a living to help support Pearl and herself. She sewed the letter herself to show everybody what she did and wore it on her chest everywhere she went, but that’s something that will come up later in the essay. The next type of punishment for Hester is the scaffold displayed publicly in front of everybody so that they may see her. Whenever Hester was given her daily freedom from the prison, it seems like she would wind up at the scaffold. The scaffold is always being used and occupied by Hester and even Dimmesdale himself. There are three scenes in which the scaffold is being used by Hester and Dimmesdale, two of them coming in the