Hester Prynne Moral Wilderness

Hester Prynne’s new discovery of moral wilderness had only made her happier and more comfortable with the environment she was in. Using the idea that Hester has “wandered” somewhere “without rule or guidance” allows readers to understand the paradise she had entered. She had arrived to a natural environment where there was no right or wrong. According to the passage, it stated, “...she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods.” This quote displays Hester’s taste of freedom and a clean slate with all of her sins wiped away. In nature, she found herself away from the Puritan society and judgement and away from all that was man-made. It is ironic that it is supposed to be of the Puritans to live a simple life, but instead they had built