The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne takes place in a Puritan community where there lived a courageous woman, Hester Prynne and her young daughter, Pearl, who was conceived when her mother was in the state of infidelity. Hester Prynne was incarcerated, for she had committed adultery and was obligated to bear the scarlet letter A upon her clothing, near her bosom. Throughout the novel, Hester progresses but struggles to understand the symbolic meaning of the scarlet letter she wears. The letter was very elaborate with embroidery and gold thread that flourished it. Accordingly, questionable to how does Hester feel in the beginning of the story when everyone has taken sight of her with the letter, what does the Dresden letter symbolize to her and how has she changed her views on it towards the end. In the beginning, Hester has the letter on and she feels ashamed, she was publicly humiliated standing in front of the whole town knowing that they are consciously judging her. Although with the letter, the people of the Puritan village were astonished that even with the letter, they expected her to be obscure and tarnished from her being in prison. Instead, it was the …show more content…
The negative energy had been executed and she felt different, alive even. It is like she is two different people with and without the letter on. She has worn it for a long time and that caused it not to be a stigma for her anymore. To her, the letter represents good and bad. She became stronger, in the end, thought differently on the letter and what it means to her. She did good deeds towards the sick, so comfortable to the people. “The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been set free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dare not tread” (208). Hester is a daring woman who has the courage and who has taken risks that could have destroyed