In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, the reader is introduced to a rebellious personality that resides in the protagonist, none other than Hester Prynne. Hester, based on an outrageous sin of her time, is sentenced to public humiliation by wearing a scarlet letter A upon her chest. Throughout her trials of motherhood with the proclaimed "devil child," the reader is approached with a transformed Hester Prynne over the period of seven years. By the end of this time, Hawthorne displays a woman that, on the outside, has a developed career and a stable life, a woman that has become a part of society, but is Prynne's presence based on truth, or is the new image of her a creation of society with out recollection of her own thoughts?
             "Hester's nature showed itself warm and rich; a well-spring of human tenderness, unfailing to every real demand," (150) Hawthorne writes, securing the idea of Hester's heartwarming appearance. She has become a person of service, appreciated service, for which she completes with people of lesser fortune and sickness. She participates in these acts with a selfless manner by not expecting anything in return for her actions except valued respect. The people of Boston take notice of these deeds that Hester performs, and slowly begins the transformation of the scarlet A's significance towards the people, beginning with the unexpressed Adultery and ending with a meaning of Able, "so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman's strength." (150) However, Hester's owning of this new meaning was hardly apparent.
             Not only had there been an existent transformation of Hester's outward behavior towards the community and the community's new approach to her service, there also remained a transformation in Hester's physical appearance to which to say did not lean toward the
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