Scarlett Letter Hesters Strength
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Since the beginning of time, civilization had sought to perfect its people. A group of people could be very unsympathetic towards anyone who transgresses the strict code of society, especially a group of people such as the Puritans. There are only a few who could use their punishment to become a better person. In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter, the main protagonist, Hester Prynne does just this. Hester uses the Scarlet letter to strengthen her character to make her more dignified and defiant to her punishment, more compassionate and charitable towards the people of her community, and more loving and more hardworking so that she could provide a good life for Pearl and herself.
Hester realizes that what she did was wrong and she accepts her punishment with dignity and defiance. As she walks out of the prison during the first scene of the novel, she was proud and seems unaffected by what everyone now thinks of her. After she was done with her sentence, she was allowed to leave. Instead of going far away from the place she committed her crime, she decides to stay in Boston in a small cottage away from the town and it people. This shows that she was not afraid to face her people and had nothing to be ashamed of...