Hester Prynne: Comparion Beween Reynold And Herzog Essays

Hester Prynne:   Comparion beween Reynold and Herzog   Essays

Hester Prynne is a very well recognized character in The Scarlet
Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.   She is a character about whom
much gas been written such as, Toward Hester Prynn, by David
Reynolds, and The Scarlet A, Aboriginal and Awesome, by Kristin
Herzog.   Reynold"s essay dealt with Hester as a heroine, who is an
artistic combination of disparate female types.   Herzog"s essay
dealt with the idea that Hester is both wild and passionate, as
well as, caring, conservative, and alien.

Towards Hester Prynne, by David Reynolds, expressed Hester as a
heroine composed of many different stereotypes of females from the
time period Hawthorne was writing.   Hawthorne created some of the
most skeptical and politically uncommitted characters in pre-civil
war history.   Reynolds went on to say, His [Hawthorne"s] career
illustrates the success of an especially responsive author in
gathering together disparate female types and recombining them
artistically so that they become crucial elements of the
rhetorical and artistic construct of his fiction (Reynolds 179).
Hawthorne used ironies of fallen women and female criminals to
achieve the perfect combination of different types of heroines.
His heroines are equipped to expel wrongs against their sex
bringing about an awareness of both the rights and wrongs of
women.   Hester is a compound of many popular stereotypes rich in
the thoughts of the time ...portrayed as a fallen woman whose
honest sinfulness is found preferable to the future corruption of
the reverend (Reynolds 183).   Hester was described by Reynolds as
a feminist criminal bound in an iron link of mutual crime
(Reynolds 183).   According to Reynolds, Hawthorne was trying to
have his culture"s darkest stereotypes absorbed into the character
of Hester and rescue them from noisy politics by reinterpreting
them in Puritan terms and fusing them with the moral exemplar.

Kristin Herzog...