Why has the world changed completely in the last 175 years? Returning all this years when the novel took place, we appear in the middle of The 17th century New England, specifically Boston (Massachusetts Bay Colony) in the state religion was called the Church of England, which had broken off from the Roman Catholic Church about 200 years earlier. Where Hester Prynne lived, she was around people with the same traditions, she was a part of them until the truth of the sin appear. Since this moment her world changed and the people who, where among her started judging all the acts she made. But Hester Prynne transcends the nightmare of the Puritan community and courageously discovers her own self-reliance, living a life of simplicity and nonconformity. In the same way, she never give up because she was full of power and, she has a strong mind, overcoming the bad moments and believing in herself. Hester 's self-reliance and inner strength are further revealed in her defiance of the law and in her iron will during her confrontation with the governor of the colony. She has not fear, she doesn’t care in what others said, Hester focus on her daughter and her new life. Secondly, she had the sufficient value to …show more content…
Another of Hawthorne affirms, ”She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”(158) One of the moments she feels freedom was when she change her personality and she was prepared to help the people who did fun of her. She changed completely her way of life that at first were on with Pearl and her to helps other and worrying about those who made bad things to her. When the people were thinking that in these points the A of adultery has not any meaning and the new one has to be A of able of helping and becoming a big part of the society. After her life the story becomes a legend for other and the big deal was the