How Does Hester Prynne Symbolize In The Scarlet Letter

ON A FIELD, SABLE, THE LETTER A, GULES"(Hawthorne 394). Hester Prynne is a character linked to many things in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, “The Scarlet Letter”. She committed, a horrible sin in her puritan society; adultery with a reverend, forming a web of repercussions. Hester’s daughter; Pearl was what was left of her innocence and the outcome of her affair.The stunningly, embroidered scarlet letter Hester had to wear on her bosom was to show her crime, and punishment to everyone in her community. She was looked down on as an disgusting sinner, and object in a constant love cycle between her, minister; her lover, and Chillingworth; her former husband. She had no control over their grief or hurt. They both still loved her and had to watch her live cast away from society. Being in the situation she was, allowed Hester to be seen as many different ways throughout the novel as an object in her society.

Hester’s body was the object that represented sin; the scarlet letter wore her. The townspeople didn't see her, only the sin that stained her bosom: an embroider “A”. Hester wore her sin out in the open, on her chest, but the man that she committed the adultery with, did not. This

After Hester received the scarlet letter she was left to be objectified between the feelings of two men; her former husband and her lover. Her husband, Roger Chillingworth, seeked revenge for the affair that occurred between Hester and her lover Dimmesdale, while Dimmesdale seeked punishment for his sin and for leaving Hester alone to raise their child. Hester was in between both situations, but not physically involved in the feelings of these men. Like said in the earlier quote she was the vessel of the feelings around her , only objectifying her place in the community even