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This 3 page paper explicates a passage in "The Scarlet Letter" in which Hester Prynne considers the nature of women's place in society, and what has to happen if it is to change. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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hypocrites who condemn her and his sympathies are clearly with the young woman. So are those of the reader, who cannot help but despise the narrow-minded town bigots. Hester expresses
her thinking about what it means to be a woman in a passage from the novel; her views may be considered an early expression of feminism because she sees the
necessity for women to have equality with men and control over their lives if they are to be fully functioning human beings. In this passage (were using an on-line, full-text
version of the novel), Hester is wondering whether it might have been better if Pearl had not been born at all. Then it occurs to her that the same "dark
question" could be applied to all women; that is, would it be better if they were never born, than to have to deal with all the problems they face? This
is a rhetorical question, meaning that she doesnt really expect an answer to it. She is simply using it to put her own thoughts into words, using them as a
sort of "springboard" for further consideration. The answer is structured as a further meditation on the status of women, in which Hester considers their present situation and what must be
done if they are to change their existence. She wonders if its possible for women to ever be truly happy. She wonders if existence is "... worth accepting, even to
the happiest among them?" (Hawthorne, 2006). She says it is not: "... she had long ago decided in the negative, and accepted the point as settled" (Hawthorne, 2006). At this
point an astute reader will wonder why, if she has accepted unhappiness as womans lot in life, and considers it settled, she is still thinking actively about it. The only
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