What Is Hester Prynne's Role In The Scarlet Letter

Hester Prynne is consider to be a strong person because she was able to stand up to the council when they wanted to take her daughter Pearl away from her, she got yelled at by the council because she refuse to tell them who is Pearl’s father, and was able to change the meaning of the “A” that was given to her by a preacher as a representative of her sin which later changes the way people had thought of her. Due to these brave acts through the book Hester Prynne is consider to be a strong person by the fact that she was able to defend herself in the presents of the council multiple times without the help from the minister or anyone else and by herself she was able to change the meaning of her sin.

During the beginning of the book Hester was still being treated as an outcast from the fact that she committed the sin of adultery by cheating on her husband

And over her grave, the infamy that she must carry thither would be her only monument” (Connolly 71-72). Meaning that Hester would have to live with the Scarlett letter for the rest of her life, which this might affect how she is going to be treated towards society in a way that the people might judge her not as a person, but for the sin she had committed. Later on in the book Hester was able to change the meaning of the symbol of her sin by doing community work or charity which cause many in the society was able to see that Hester was trying to change by showing how someone who committed a sin can still be accepted in society and accept the fact that she committed a