A Character Analysis of Hester

Hester Prynne is the main protagonist and the most complicated character in The Scarlet Letter. Hester transfers her passionate nature that is strong-willed, impetuous, to a contemplative, stoic woman and thinker who speculates on human nature, social organization and lager moral question, and has independent philosophizing and be maternal with respect to society. Through analyzing Hester¡¯s character and its contributing factors in the cline of the plots, the paper concludes that the formation and transformation of Hester¡¯s character in a long and complicated process, and it is the result of the influences of history, sexism society, Puritanism, people connected to her and her own realization and thought.

Key Words: Hester Prynne; complicated character; passionate nature; thinker; maternal respect; long process

Thesis statement: The formation and transformation of Hester¡¯s character is a long and complicated process, which is the result of the influences of history, society, religion, people connected to her and her own realization and action.

¢ò. The influences of background on Hester¡¯s character

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That Hester¡¯s becoming an outcast that even the children mock causes her more painful. The American Colonies: From Settlement to Independent. Only on the scaffold at night and in the forest can they catch each other¡¯s hands and keep intimacy and a relation of real lovers. This indicates that Chillingworth¡¯s purpose was not to ruin Heste¡¯s soul,

¡°I have greatly wronged thee,¡± ¡°Hester¡¯s earnest look into his face; not precisely a look of fear, yet full of down and questioning, as to what his purpose might be. Dimmesdale¡¯s cowardice, Chillingworth¡¯s evil, Pearl¡¯s passion and rebellion greatly influence Hester¡¯s formation and transformation in character. It is until here when Hester realizes that she cannot depend on her lover to salve herself, necause Dimmesdale now has no other strength to break from the community and the society he belongs to, and his health in on the wine. Dimmesdale was a respected and young pastor, he comes from one of the greatest English University and he brings all the leaning of the age into the wild forest land. ¡°The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. In Pearl¡¯s mind, the letter on her mother¡¯s bosom has been the embodiment of herself, the toss of the letter means the rejection of Pearl by Hester. The seven years mean to Hester are intribulations, her passion is compared to that of the brook¡¯s sadness.

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