Hester Prynne Victim

Hester Prynne was a Victim Living during the Puritan era has its setbacks. Hester Prynne was harshly victimized for adultery and it was not taken lightly by her Puritan judges. Hester was a victim of her time because, she was caught in a “love triangle between herself, her minister lover, Arthur Dimmesdale, and her husband, now called Roger Chillingworth”. (Seabrook) Hester was also a victim because, “Her imagination was somewhat affected, and, had she been of a softer moral and intellectual fibre, would have been still more so, by the strange and solitary anguish of her life”. (Hawthorne pg 85) Another reason Hester is a true victim because “ Hester Prynne did not now occupy precisely the same position in which we beheld her during the

She was very lonely in much in pain. The loneliness only got worse and the pain got unbearable. Hester was also a victim because, “Her imagination was somewhat affected, and, had she been of a softer moral and intellectual fibre, would have been still more so, by the strange and solitary anguish of her life”. (Hawthorne pg 85) The pain she went through started shaping her into a different person. She is now a totally different person and the pain only got worse, an example of this is; “Hester Prynne did not now occupy precisely the same position in which we beheld her during the earlier periods of her ignominy”. (Hawthorne pg.156) Hester Prynne lived in the Puritan times. Things are much different now than they were in the late 1840’s. Punishments are taken differently now and things that were bad then are not so much bad now. If Hester did what she did in today 's world she wouldn’t get punished. Hester lived in a time where the rights for women were very limited all of the troubles come from women. “ Women 's rights were a part of the cultural conversation”. (Seabrook) This is a good example of how Hester is a victim. She was put on the spot clearly and the time she lived in was so anti- women she got more than what she