Hawthorne's feelings towards women, from Scarlet Letter
This passage from the novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, focuses on the narrator's opinions and attitude toward Hester Prynne and women in general. By analyzing Hawthorne's use on language and rhetorical devices, we can establish that the narrator holds women in high esteem. The reasoning behind the narrator's admiration of women is found within the passage, in which he concludes that women are powerful and strong and deserve to be respected. It is evident from the passage that the narrator expresses that women are powerful and strong. The narrator explains that women are strong by using Hester as a model. Hester has been through being branded with the scarlet letter, "All the light and graceful foliage of her character had been withered
All these details build up to one argument that is; these women deserve to be respected. Although at the moment it seems as though through Hester's isolation she has lost these qualities. Lines 19 through 26 have some odd rhetorical devices in the sentence, such as the capitalization of words, Love, Passion and Affection. These beautiful people deserve to be respected. Hester also goes through psychological changes. The women are powerful and strong and could take on problems as did Hester and her trials and tribulations. Respect for Hester and women, is what the narrator is trying to express in a broad sense. Despite all this Hester still seems to live through her, "experience of peculiar severity" (29). As a result of the seclusion of Hester, Hester changes not only mentally, but also physically. The narrator goes on to describe Hester's rigid change in clothing and diminishing manner, more specifically he writes, "It was a sad transformation, too, that her rich and luxuriant hair had been either cut off, or was completely hidden by a cap, that not a shining lock of it was ever once gushed into the sunshine. The narrator then goes on to say "If she survive the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or - and the outward semblance the same, -- crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.
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