Part one of term paper
Hester Prynne is as ripe a protagonist as any for learning and changing throughout the course of a novel. She is a new mother and a publicly condemned and ostracized woman in a highly moral and tight knit Puritan community. Her very position in life, first child in hand and scarlet letter on bosom, demands that she learn and grow in some d ...

Part two of term paper
... and lived through, an experience of particular severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die." (163) As her crime is revealed to the community and she is subsequently punished as a direct result of her pregnancy, the learnings of motherhood and of wearing the scarlet letter as a permanent reminder of her sin are inextricably linked. Also related are her thoughts and changes of perspective in regard to women in society, love, sexuality, and relationships between men and women. These are par ...