How Does Hester Prynne Characterize In The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a long story (novel) called “The Scarlet Letter” which he tells the reader how a fresh mother commits a long lifetime sin to which she bursts out of in her own way. Hawthorne's father died as a sea captain in Dutch Guiana when he was four years old. He changed his name from William Hathorne to Nathaniel Hawthorne. He died in his hotel room on vacation in New Hampshire on May in 1864. The Scarlet Letter gives the reader a powerful message through how Hester Prynne overcame her shame of the scarlet letter on her bosom throughout her life. These three literary elements characterization, symbolism, and theme shows examples that support how Hester Prynne overcame her shame with a strong message with using the critical strategy

Characterization is a literary element that identifies what a character does, say, think, and react with each character that makes them stand out. One thing that she does incredibility and identifies her is her skill at needlework. “She hath good skill at her needle, that’s certain, remarked on of her female spectators” (page 45). Even the women who bash her embrace the fact that she is good. Hester’s needlework proves even when she is in punishment she has a fantastic skill no matter what. “She bore on her breast, in the curiously embroidered letter, a specimen of her delicate and imaginative skill, of which the dames of a court might gladly have availed themselves, to add the richer and more spiritual adornment of human ingenuity to their fabrics of silk and gold”(page 68). As a woman during her time they could be accused of witchcraft and were the basics maids, housekeepers, meal planner, kid watcher and extra. But Hester Prynne shown through all of that through her sin which was to have a child! Observing and looking over these things usually the critical strategy gender determines how brave she was to show off the scarlet letter as a prove mother and needleworker through her sin for a women. Through how Hester is talented, strong, and independent the scarlet letter shows symbolism in a different way through the seven years of having

Symbolism is a person, object, or event that suggests more than its literal meaning. The scarlet letter is a great example to what happens to Hester without the letter on her bosom or breast. “The stigma gone, Hester heaved a long, deep sigh, in which the burden of shame and anguish departed from her spirit. Oh, exquisite relief! She had not known the weight, until she felt the freedom! By another impulse, she took off the formal cap that confined her hair; and down it fell upon her shoulders, dark and rich, with at once a shadow and a light in its abundance, and imparting the charm of softness to her features. There played around her mouth, and beamed out of her eyes, a radiant and tender smile, that seemed gushing from the very heart of womanhood. A crimson flush was glowing on her cheek, that had been long so pale. Her sex, her youth, and the whole richness of her beauty, came back from what men call the irrevocable past, and clustered themselves, with her maiden hope, and a happiness before unknown, within the magic circle of this hour”(page 162). This shows how taking off the scarlet letter makes her free from everything- free spirit. But when she puts it back on because Pearl would not come to her at first she feels like she is in a cage of evil. “Hopefully, but a moment ago, as Hester had spoken of drowning it in the deep sea, there was a sense of inevitable doom upon her, as