Hester the Artist
Art is something that is common to many of us, and it would be very difficult to stamp it out of our society and culture. That, however, is a feat the Puritans tried to accomplish. They are “blamed” for “overrating morality” to the point in which they completely “suppressed art” (Hoffman 53). But art is something that even the firmest controls cannot always contain. Hester Prynne, heroine of the Nathaniel Hawthorne romance The Scarlet Letter, perpetuated her art in ways that went unnoticed, but also in ways that shouted out loud to everyone around her that her artistic creativity would not be stamped out. Hawthorne’s purpose for presenting Hester in this way was to show “a person’s attempt to see [one’s] artistic side survive in a community that disapproves of the use of the imagination” (Johnson 2). The Scarlet Letter may be a sad story to those who see Hester as a helpless victim of a love affair gone awry, but to those who truly understand Hester’s inner passion her story is a reminder to those who feel their dreams and passions suppressed that a devoted artist can always persevere. To the artist, this story is anything but tragic. Hester Prynne, having been sent to New England ahead of her husb
Leone, Bruno. Readings on the Scarlet Letter. San Diego: Green Haven Press Inc., 1998. Pg. 93. Hoffman, Frederick J. The Twenties: American Writing in the Postwar Decade. Rev. ed. New York: Free Press, 1965. Pg. 53. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1988.
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