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Hester Prynne In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

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Hester Prynne faced many mockeries that were a direct result of the scarlet letter “A” that was placed upon her bosom. Although she was offered a way out of that same ridicule she faced from the letter, she refused to take it off. As the novel goes on, it became more sacred to her being: “It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself” (51). The scarlet letter came to represent Hester not only as a woman in seventeenth century society but also as a person who naturally encounters sin and deals with it in their own way. During the seventeenth century women were naturally assumed to be less inferior from men due to scientific discoveries and the recent religious
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