Hesters Isolation and Alienation in The Scarlet Letter :: Scarlet Letter essays

Hesters Isolation and madness in The Scarlet Letter             In Nathaniel Hawthorns The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmsdale fork up move adultery, an unacceptable sin during the Puritan times.  As a way out of their sin, a child is born, whom the mother names Pearl. Out of her own unloosen will Hester has to face major punishments. She has to serve many months in prison, confirm on the hold for three hours under public scrutiny, and attach a scarlet letter, A on her chest either day as long as she remained in the town of Boston.   The letter A was to pose Hester Prynne as an adulteress and as an immoral human being. Thus the untested and the pure would be taught to look at her, with the letter flaming on her chest, also as the figure, the body and  the reality of sin(73).  property on to sin can lead to alienation and isolation.             One reason He ster was alienated was her refusal to identify the other adulterer.  When Hester is released from prison and stood upon the scaffold,  she was asked to reveal the name of whom she committed the sin with.  Having a heart blinded by love Hester consume to stay in the town and wear the scarlet letter A instead of revealing the other adulterer.  She faced society only to defend and be close to the man she still loved.  The impulsive and passionate temperament (54), which to Hester seemed pure and natural had to be faced under humiliation alone, without the helper of sin.  It seemed as though she was paying not only her own consequence,  further that of her lovers as well.  Saying so herself while standing on the scaffold I might face his agony as well as mine (64).  Now taking on all blame she has inclined up all her individuality.  Now she would become the general symbol at which the preacher and moralist might point, and in whic h they might vivify and support their images of womans frailty  and sinful passion (73).  After the sin had been revealed Hester never again felt she was accepted by society. It seemed to her as though every gesture, every word, and even the silence of those whom she came in contact,