Scarlet Letter Blog #1

By making the scarlet letter "A" beautifully decorated, Nathanial Hawthorne is trying to get an important message across to his readers. He is trying to represent the fact that Hester is a strong woman who is trying to see the light through all the darkness in her life. Hester is simply making the best out of a bad situation; ' "She hath good skill at her needle, that's certain," remarked one of her female spectators; "but did ever a woman before this brazen hussy, contrive such a way of showing it! Why, gossips, what is it but to laugh in the faces of our godly magistrates, and make a pride out of what they, worthy gentlemen, meant for a punishment?". (pg 51) She knows she has committed adultery and deserves punishment, yet she also knows that she is still beautiful inside and out and is not willing to let that one mistake break her. She is not going to hang her head and feel bad about herself because of it, she is going to move on and continue living her life despite how differently people may treat her.