Hester Prynne Stereotypes

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In The Scarlet Letter, the main protagonist Hester Prynne is quite a strong woman handling all these trials basically on her own. The author Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts Hester without many of the stereotypes that we know to have been in women's lives I would hope that those stereotypes have been long since buried, but sadly some still remain. Although there are many differences as to how women were treated in the time of the puritans, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s time period, and our own generation. I would hope to show that Hester Prynne defies the stereotypes pinned on her by the time frame.
When the puritans came to America they settled and eventually thrived off the land. Puritans believed that women were: “the weaker vessel in both body and mind” (Puritan women), and that they weren't capable of doing much in life. Now we see their first mistake, women are equal, if not better, at many things than men are. Women can do anything they wanted to, within legal bounds of course, so one sex is not higher than the other they are both equal. Now please don't mistake “equal” with “fair” or “same” because that's not what I mean when I said equal I meant as in capability. Of course women have limitations, but so do men, men can do things women can't and women can do things that men can't, …show more content…

It feels as though Hawthorn is showing us that despite society and their beliefs the sun or the heavens still believes her to be equal to men. I will always believe that women are equal to men because all people are diverse therefore one gender isn't better than the other only that one person might find something easier than another person. We shouldn't judge anyone my their gender or race or anything like that we should always be like the sun shining on everyone equally no matter who we are the sun will shine on us when we step out into

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