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Sunday, November 13, 2016

Feminism in The Scarlett Letter

A signifi grasst theme in Nathaniel Hawthorns The ruby-red Letter is feminism. In the novel, Hester Prynne shows these ideas of feminism by oercoming public confusion and going against the ideals that the prude town suasion were right for her. To the puritan community, Hester Prynne has deliberately gone against the church building values that stress worth and holiness. Hester is the perfect example of a feminist. In Puritan times, women were thought of a lesser than men. Women were supposititious to raise children, cook, clean and split up their kids good morals and values. intimately women did not take aim jobs and obeyed what their husbands told them to do. Hester can be bewitchn as a feminist because of they way she goes against the Puritans ideas of how a womans life should be like. Hester denies the stereotypical and superficial persona that women are dependent on men in the puritan society. Hester realizes that she does not need to repose dependent on her husba nd. Hester by means of her struggles and isolation, showed the resilience in women and her qualification to preserver even when at her lowest stage. She refuses to sell emerge and cut herself by bring out the name of the father. She takes the punishment because she cannot lower herself.\nShe raises a child, supports herself financially and keeps her self-regard even when made stick up on a hold for three hours to be publically humiliated. Despite being condemned and mocked of, her liberty prevails as she sewed a very elaborate and lucubrate A on her dress, and she refuses to allow the people of the town have total power over her feelings. Instead of staying completely separate she sews beautifully detailed gloves and former(a) items for the leaders of the community such as Governor Bellingham. end-to-end the novel we can see a switch in authority, Dimmesdale develops a sensitivity to Hester, which she takes good of. It is as if the two fount switched roles; Some attr ibute had gone(p) from her, the pe...

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