In the great days where sporting the incorrect shirt to church might result in an execution, Hester Prynne rises higher than her peers to fight social tyranny. Hester Prynne endured the worst and lived through it to become better in the end. Hester is a true social rebel. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Hester Prynne is developed from the beginning to be a woman of great endurance ready to handle most anything thrown her way. This only adds to her character as she becomes everything the Puritan individuals loathed. It is seen throughout the novel that Hester Prynne is a social rebel as she breaks far from society’s ideas that Puritan woman must be invariably loyal to their husbands, that woman need their men to survive, and that society is always right. The Scarlet Letter takes place in the mid …show more content…
This is precisely what happened with Hester. No one would thoroughly consider the circumstances and stop to understand her spouse has been absent for years. The Puritan people were stuck in the ideas of the church that infidelity was one of the greatest of all transgressions. Hester did not think society was correct in these claims. It would seem that should Hester accept their accusations Pearl would be the first to go. “No! If this be the price of the child’s sympathy, I cannot pay it!”(Hawthorne 116). Hester refused to even involve Pearl in the letter. Hester refused to answer the inquiries of her little girl to spare her from the calamity that was her sin. If Hester felt any kind of disgrace or guilt for her act, Pearl would be a constant reminder of this. Hester treated Pearl with incredible adoration and reverence raising her well and sin free. Had Hester considered anything society had tossed at her, Pearl would likely have not been raised with her and Hester would have given her