Hester Prynne: The Search For A More Congenial
Hester Prynne: The Search For a More Congenial
Human Condition
"Do onto others as you want others to do onto you." Hester, the main character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's, The Scarlet Letter embraces this "golden rule" in an attempt to return from a newly found life of isolation and alienation brought upon her by her sin. Continually treating others with respect and dignity, Hester works as hard as physically and mentally possible to transform her image and escape the unhappy human condition in which she and her daughter are now forced to live. In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne grasps the thematic idea of escape from the unhappy human condition of alienation and isolation, where one must experience the consequence of sin through repentance, and at times must follow the path of alienation, to experience the freedom of redemption. This is accomplished by the author's use of literary symbols, primarily the rose bush, the scarlet letter and the scaffold.
Hawthorne uses symbols......
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