While she is married she find out she is pregnant with some else’s child. Puritans looked down upon this greatly. For her punishment, she was convicted of adultery, and forced to wear a scarlet letter, “A” on her dress for the rest of her life. When she was let out of prison, she had to stand on the scaffold for three hours and endure the stares of the townspeople. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses many ways to characterize Hester Prynne, and to show her importance in the development of the plot.
Although she has learned a lot from her schooling and has a better knowledge than her mom & sister, I feel she possesses this know-it-all attitude about what heritage really is. Although Wangero does make a good point in saying that heritage is beautiful and should be shown as art for people to appreciate, I just feel she went about the situation all wrong. Maggie is at first a docile character, until she sees her sister disrespecting her mother and then she stands up because her mother doesn’t. I am not saying I have no sympathy for Maggie. Based on the theme of the story I feel that Maggie has a greater, more genuine appreciation for her heritage.
Why did Hester name her child Pearl? “…she names the infant ‘Pearl,’ as being of great price, -- purchased with all she had, -- her mother’s only treasure!” 2. What does the Scarlet Letter mean to Pearl? At this point, the A is a fascination. As a baby, Pearl seems instinctively drawn the A. Symbolically, this suggests a connection between the baby and the A as they are born from the same sin, but some may speculate that the decorative nature of the letter during a time period of particularly bland dress would draw one’s attention.
The most important symbol which is carried in The Scarlet Letter is certainly the letter A. In the beginning of the story it symbolizes the act of adultery, but by the end of the tale the A has a variety of meanings. The letter appears in many other places other than the chest of Hester Prynne. For example: while Dimmesdale is standing on the scaffold he sees a bright red letter A in the sky. One of the most significant A's is one the townspeople see on Dimmesdale's chest at the end of the novel.
The analysis of the main characters, Hester, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth, and Holden of The Scarlet Letter and The Catcher in the Rye show that they’re impostures and the main theme of the books’ is hypocrisy. Hester Prynne, the woman in The Scarlet Letter who commits adultery, is mostly the reason why everyone else suffers and the reason of the hypocrisy in the story. During the first scene, she exits the prison with a scarlet letter sewed on her clothing, “in fine red cloth surrounded with elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread" (Hawthorne 46). From the start, it is shown that Hester
A small crime was considered to be as terrible as the worst of crime, and criminals were punished strictly. For example, a child will be beaten in the town square as a punishment for being ungrateful to his parents. The punishment to Hester Prynne for adultery is the scarlet letter "A" on the front of her dress after seven years prison life. Therefore,at first, the scarlet letter "A" symbolizes "adultery" here and means AD which is short for Arthur Dimmesdale, who is Hester's lover. With the development of plot,the scarlet letter"A" represents "amazon".
Nathaniel Hawthorne goes into depth about sins that most people don’t want to hear about. During the time period of The Scarlet Letter, adultery was extremely frowned upon, and was punishable by death. Dimmesdale kept the guilt and the pain of what he had done bundled up inside; Hester`s sin was brought to light she stood on a scaffold alone as people watched; Chillingworth was letting his anger and hatred control his very being. Hester along with her baby had nothing else to do, but stand and watch as her lover stood by. As she was tried for the very thing he should be tried for.
The Scarlet Letter "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a somewhat short novel. It is about a women named Hester Prynne who has done an act of adultery. She is forced to wear a letter A on her chest symbolizing adultery. This all happens when she thinks her husband Roger Chillingworth died at seas so she sees another man. The mans name is Arthur Dimmesdale whom she conceives a child with named Pearl.
What was once considered a mistake is now seen as a mischievous child named Pearl. After her extramarital affair, Hester has to go through the humiliation of standing in front of the entire town wearing her scarlet letter and holding her illegitimate child. She feels remorse for her action: “Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast, --at her, the child of honorable parents, --at her, the mother of a babe, that would hereafter be a woman, --at her, who had once been innocent, --as the figure of the body, the reality of sin” (Hawthorne 73). Society sees Hester in various roles but they judge her according to unforgiving rules. While Hester’s “sins” are out in public where all could see, Dimmesdale and Chillingworth hide their debaucheries from public view.
In these lines, Blake speaks about the unfaithfulness of men, who at the time often contracted syphilis from prostitutes and spread the disease to their wives. Children born to mothers with syphilis often went blind due to the unknown effects of this disease. The suffering of an innocent child strikes close to the heart, and truly shows corruption in marriage. Mehta also uses children in her film to send a strong message about the corruption of marriage. By using Chuyia as a main character, Mehta strikes the heart of viewers when this young girl is stripped of her childhood.