Feminism in The Scarlett Letter

A signifi orduret theme in Nathaniel Hawthorns The carmine Letter is womens liberation movement. In the novel, Hester Prynne shows these ideas of feminism by all overcoming public abasement and going against the ideals that the prude town cerebration were right for her. To the prude community, Hester Prynne has deliberately gone against the church building values that stress chastity and holiness. Hester is the perfect example of a feminist. In Puritan times, women were thought of a lesser than men. Women were divinatory to raise children, cook, clean and legislate their kids good morals and values. ab out(p) women did not stick out jobs and obeyed what their husbands told them to do. Hester can be namen as a feminist because of they way she goes against the Puritans ideas of how a cleaning ladys life should be like. Hester denies the stereotypical and superficial externalise that women are dependent on men in the puritan society. Hester realizes that she does not need t o perch dependent on her husband. Hester through her struggles and isolation, showed the resilience in women and her capacity to preserver even when at her lowest stage. She refuses to sell out and begin herself by revealing the name of the father. She takes the punishment because she cannot lower herself.\nShe raises a child, supports herself financially and keeps her high-handedness even when made protest on a hold for three hours to be publically humiliated. Despite being condemned and mocked of, her license prevails as she sewed a very elaborate and critical A on her dress, and she refuses to allow the people of the town have total power over her feelings. Instead of staying completely insulate she sews beautifully detailed gloves and other items for the leaders of the community much(prenominal) as Governor Bellingham. throughout the novel we can see a switch in authority, Dimmesdale develops a sensitivity to Hester, which she takes prefer of. It is as if the two credit switched roles; Some attribute had dead person from her, the pe...