Hester Prynne essays
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Hester Prynne is the most important character around whom all the events and incidents of the novel ‘The Scarlet Letter’ center. She committed the sin of adultery and fell a cruel victim to the stern Puritan law. The Puritan moralists find Hester guilty of an unpardonable sin. Hester, on the other hand, does not think herself guilty as she responded to a natural urge only. She seems to be a free-will agent and defies the Puritan strictures. But at the...
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There is nothing more painful than living in ignominy for the rest of your life. In a place that was known as Puritan New England, no crime was left without punishment. Hester Prynne went against the puritan rules, creating a child that will now bring joy to her, but will mostly haunt her. With all the hatred that Hester received, she reached a point in which she was no longer emotionally healthy. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, it shows...
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Mistress Hibbins is based on a historical figure, Ann Hibbins. Ann Hibbins was the sister-in-law of Governor Belligham and she was also executed in 1659 after being accused and found guilty of witchcraft. Her function in the novel is to be the exact opposite of the character of Hester. She symbolizes supernatural knowledge and evil powers. “Wilt thou go with us tonight? There will be merry company in the forest; and I well-nigh promised the Black Man that comely Hester...
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The main character of the novel, around which everything revolves, is Hester Prynne, a young and beautiful woman, of solid moral principles, educated, untamed and a lover of freedom, at a time when the human intellect began to emancipate (cap 13), because we are in full scientific revolution, as a consequence, above all, of the findings in the field of astronomy of the Italian Galileo Galilei († 1642) and the German Johannes Kepler († 1630), who drove decisively the establishment...
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Frida Kahlo (1907-54, Mexican) and Joy Hester (1920-60, Australian) are both significant female artists, exploring human emotions and the complexities of life in their work. Kahlo was a surrealist artist often illustrating her Mexican heritage and depicting the female experience through her self-portraiture. Hester was a modernist artist, and was involved in an innovative circle of artists who made great advancements in the development of Australian Modernism. She often created works exemplifying the pain and suffering of the world but...
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