Hester Prynne. A Representative of a New Woman

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Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: In the first part of this term paper a short overview of the situation ofwomen from the seventeenth century until the middle of the nineteenth centurywill be given. Further on, it will then be demonstrated how women challengedthe existing female images and how they fought for equal rights. The main partdiscusses if the heroine of the romance, Hester Prynne, can be considered as arepresentative of a new female image or if she fits into the image of atraditional woman of the seventeenth century.

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