Hester Prynne In The Scarlet Letter

The main character of the novel, around which turns everything, is Hester Prynne, a woman young and beautiful, solid moral principles, cultured, wild and a lover of freedom, in an age that was beginning to emancipate the human intellect. His sin, if it can be called so, is the only mistake he has committed in his life; keep a fleeting relationship with pastor Arthur Dimmesdale, result of which will be her pregnancy and the birth of Pearl. The judges, who could very well have it condemned to death if it had been a normal adultery, i.e., in the case of have kept extramarital affairs husband cheating, forcing permanently carry a large letter A of adulteress on his chest. To qualify to Hester as sinful or heroin, it is convenient to refer to a …show more content…
Naturally, a Calvinist pastor, as well as any other Protestant, could not maintain sex outside of marriage, and, hence, largely, the deep awareness of sin that will take hold of both lovers. A third circumstance which must not be forgotten is that both Hester and Arthur have kept their brief relationship as a result of the attraction, both physical and spiritual, that felt mutually, affinity that can be deduced from the interview that both remain, seven years after the conviction, in the interior of the forest, with the intention of clarifying their future. The truth is that the same narrative make it clear in the appreciation of the reader that Hester is not precisely a mujerzuela of low morale, but quite the opposite, a woman of sound moral principles, of irreproachable conduct, which has been a good and patient wife during the time that has lasted her marriage, despite the nature of the husband , and that for anything in the world was a man on a whim of the will or to satisfy merely a carnal appetite. If Hester has delivered Arthur it is because he loves it, because it has realized immediately that he also deserves and that they can build together a

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