A for Able: Hester Prynne's Internal Conflict The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the book, "Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne has an affair and bears a child. This shocked the Puritan community deeply and she was forced to live alone with her child, Pearl, in the forest. After seven long years, she is incorporating herself back into the community due to her superb sewing skills. Although she is somewhat accepted into the community again, she cannot stop her passionate feelings for her lover, the Minister …

…to join Dimmesdale in the afterlife and kills herself. If we all thought about it, Dimmesdale's death was the final straw for Hester Prynne, but mixing together an uptight society's inability to accept her for who she is, her individual beliefs becoming more important than the greater good of the community, a jealous husband and a deep secret is what really leads her to suicide, since she has no other real solution to her problem.