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Hester’s Courage - College Essay

Hester’s Courage

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne relates a story about courage and the punishment of a woman, Hester Prynne. She was being humiliated and punished for breaking a Puritan belief against adultery. Courage, also known as fortitude, is the ability to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty or intimidation.
Hester demonstrate courage when she stayed in the Scaffold for hours, staying in Boston with her daughter rather than leaving and going to the Governor’s house to fight for the custody of her daughter.
Hester was a beautiful and young woman who had an affair with Arthur Dimmesdale, while they thought her husband Roger Chillingworth had died. However, Chillingworth did not die ...

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and the life she could have, she even touched the Scarlet Letter to see if was real.” (15, 16). The town people knew that she had committed a sin, but they wanted to see the sin on her chest constantly. The letter “A” some how gave power to them and made them feel superior. They thought if they did not see it was because she was not been punished.
Hester shows courage when she was thrown out of town with her baby, and she went to live in an isolation life in a cottage outside of the community. She could leave Boston, but she chose to stay rather than living, because she was not proud of her sin, but she admitted her rights and wrongs to herself and the society, while the other people lived in fear and hiding their sins in their hearts.
The years were passing very fast and Pearl was getting older everyday. Hester became very worried about Pearl, because she had a funny way to think and Hester wears her daughter with bright red dresses. Also the children of the town did not ...

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Added: 5/1/2011 03:15:26 PM
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