Scarlet Letter Essay Idea

Scarlet Letter Essay Idea: I want to talk about how the Scarlet Letter shows feminism throughout the Scarlet Letter. I want to show this through Hester in the novel and how in the end this idea of feminism is lost in the "pissing contest" between Dimmesdale and Chillingworth. But is somewhat reesstablished in the last few sceens when Hester returns to New England.I want to talk about it using refrences like how Hester talks aobut wanting to change society and how she wants to change the "very nature of the opposite sex" on pg 327. I also want to talk about how in the Puritan society women were not equal and how Hester wanted to create a world where womens rights were possible. In the end Hester returns to New England and helps women who come to her cottage with issues of women who were "wonded, wasted, wronged, misplaced or erring and sinful passion (pg. 527)". Hester all the way to the end continues to keep up the belife that in the future women will have more rights. She comes up with this idea because the Scarlet letter causes her to be removed from society and think a little bit more in peace. I think that Pearl is the continuation of Hesters wish for the refomrn of society, because in the seen where Dimmsdale dies, Pearl pledges to grow up and be a women in the world. This pledge was for both her mother and father (pg 513).In this seen I also want to point out how Dimmesdale just shushes Hester as she talkes to him on his death bed and instead speaks about himself and just himself (pg 507). This was a very forward novel because back when Hawthorne wrote it because there was really no such thing as feminism. I think this novel is a great representation of how women wanted rights and were not allowed them and were forced to stay within the limmits of there rights given to them by the men of that time. I want to talk about the feminism in the Scarlet Letter through Hester and Pearls's journey throught the novel, and how they are treated by the men of the novel.