Introduction
Women always encounter a form of prejudice; their work ethic, abilities, natural behavior, instincts, and emotions constantly face harsh criticism and false attribution errors by men. The generalization of females shows how we treat females like objects: all the same with some special ones that were meant to keep. That can sound charming to some, but the fact remains that objects associate more to women than humans. The term “woman” or “female” has always faced ridicule with phrases such as, “you run like a girl,” or, “you’re a woman, so please return to your rightful place in the kitchen.” Women receive the treatment of slaves and the bitter, careless feelings like objects as if American Eagles could represent the stereotyped
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It’s their humanity, their bravado, their intellect, and their ability that allows a female to be successful. Hester turned something that was meant to harm and condemn her, the scarlet letter into something beautiful. Pearl was someone that did condemn her but in the end turned into someone beautiful and overwhelmed with favor from even people that were supposedly her enemies. Hawthorne may not have directed his “narrative” specifically towards feminism, but his themes and deeper ramifications remain the same for the female race: embrace your identity and take something that was meant to harm you and turn it into something beautiful. A person will face an immense quantity of trials throughout her or his lifetime, but the effort and the strive to become greater than what people expect a person to become makes people human. It makes people free, something the puritans always wanted. It makes people turn into a woman because women overcome struggles every day while even racial discrimination slowly diminishes. Hawthorne defines what it means to live and breathe as a human- as a man, as a