what do the Puritan women say about Hester before she comes out of the prison? What does this show us about the Puritan society? 4. In Chapter 2‚ what two things serve as symbols of Hester’s adultery? The letter A on her chest and her daughter pearl. 5. What did Hester Prynne have to do as punishment when she came out of the prison‚ besides wear the scarlet letter? She had to stand on the scaffold for public humiliation. 6. Describe Hester Prynne’s appearance? Tall‚ deep black
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literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne created a story that describes Hester as a strong female character living with her choices‚ whether they were ethical or unethical (Hawthorne‚ 52). Hester Prynne is a feminist who refuses to accept the subordinate role of women because she has financial‚ emotional‚ and intellectual independence. Hester Prynne is comparable to a modern feminist because of her admirable actions and brave choices. Hester reveals she is a resilient woman when she is prosecuted by the
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Hester Prynne signifies a women of grace and wild spirit. Strong-willed and beautiful‚ Hester Prynne has also defied the Puritans ways. Though she is ladylike and prideful‚ she is faced with the trouble of being a sinner. The innocence of any human can be taken away in a flash‚ and in the case of Hester Prynne‚ her innocence escapes her after she commits a horrific sin. Hester is immediately isolated in her town because she commits an act of adultery‚ resulting in a Scarlet Letter forever engraved
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Hester Prynne defies the ideological image of a Puritan women. Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays her as strong self reliant and outgoing women in The Scarlet Letter who castes away the stereotypical ideology of a Puritan women and establishes the concept of feminism. She defies all the necessary component of becoming a mother. She hand raised her daughter‚ Pearl‚ with no man for assistant and with a stable occupation. Although she is looked down upon by society as a sinner or someone who is impure‚ she
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The Scarlet Letter‚ written by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the main character‚ Hester Prynne‚ committed an act of adultery. This sinful act resulted in a feeling of guilt and humiliation as she tried to go about her normal life in the community of Salem. Her punishment for this transgression was to stand on a scaffold for three hours while she was shamed and chastised by Puritans. By acknowledging that her actions were wrong‚ Hester matured mentally and she experienced a freedom that she had never felt before
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Hester Prynne Article Reflection After reading this article‚ I find myself agreeing with most of what the author has to say about Hester Prynne‚ one of the protagonists in The Scarlet Letter. I enjoy the fact that the writer believes Hester is a cultural symbol who changed the way society has viewed women for a long time. I personally do not like the idea that women are always inferior to men; This probably is due to me being a female myself. Just like the writer‚ I find Hester’s open defiance
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TMA01 Sociology City Road PG1 Drawing on what you have learned about City Road‚ outline some of the inequalities on a street that you know. The streets of our cities often tell us more about our society than we expect‚ they show how people and objects interact with each other in order to make a community. In this assignment I am going to look at similarities and differences between the inequalities of city road in Cardiff and the Lisburn Road in Belfast. Inequalities are the social resources
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time. Hester Prynne‚ an outcast in of the 17th century Boston Puritan’s society‚ is the protagonist in Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. She is not much different when compared to the 2012 orchid steel of Burma‚ Aung San Suu Kyi‚ the pro-democracy movement leader who is still fighting for her country to this very day. This essay will enlighten the readers on the backgrounds of the heroines‚ as well as their similarities which can be compared from their various attributes. Hester Prynne
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Puritan time period of 1620. Unfortunately‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne’s‚ Scarlet letter Hester Prynne was an adulterer. Hester is the protagonist in the novel as well as a round character. She changed throughout the novel as well as the leading character. Hester got punished and had to wear the letter “A” on her chest to represent that she committed adultery. She also had to stand on the scaffold and live with pearl. Hester Prynne cheated on her husband‚ Roger Chillingworth with Arthur Dimmesdale. Prynne
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would remind Hester of what happened in the past. The "brat" could have been given away to Governor Bellingham yet Hester proclaimed that Pearl "is my happiness!...Ye shall not take her! I will die first!" Not a person in Boston‚ nor Hester herself thought highly of the little child and Hester refused to let Pearl go. Hester carried the kid around only because it was a direct reflection of her sin and to cast away here sin as freely as that to give it away would be unjust and unfair to Hester and Pearl
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