The Character of Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter Hester Prynne is a very well recognized character in The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. She is a character who has been written about a lot, such as Toward Hester Prynn, by David Reynolds, and The Scarlet A, Aboriginal and Awesome, by Kristin Herzog. Reynold's essay treated Hester as a heroine, who is an artistic combination of disparate female types. Herzog's essay dealt with the idea that Hester is simultaneously wild and passionate, as well as thoughtful, conservative, and alien. Towards Hester Prynne, by David Reynolds, expressed Hester as a heroine made up of many different female stereotypes of the time period in which Hawthorne was writing. Hawthorne created some of the most skeptical and politically disengaged characters in pre-Civil War history. Reynolds went on to say: His [Hawthorne's] career illustrates the success of a particularly responsive author in bringing together disparate female types and recombining them artistically so that they become crucial elements of the rhetorical and artistic construction of his narrative (Reynolds 179). Hawthorne used the irony of the fallen. women and female criminals to get the perfect combination of different types of heroines. Her heroines are equipped to expel the wrongs against their sex, leading to an awareness of both the rights and wrongs of women. Hester is a composite of many thoughtful popular stereotypes of the time… depicted as a fallen woman whose honest sinfulness is deemed preferable to the reverend's future corruption (Reynolds 183). Hester was described by Reynolds as a feminist criminal bound by an iron bond of mutual criminality (Reynolds 183). According to Reynolds, Hawthorne was trying to absorb the darkest stereotypes of his culture into the character of Hester and rescue them from noisy politics by reinterpreting them in Puritan terms and merging them with moral example. Kristin Herzog had a slightly different vision of Hester in The Scarlet A, Aboriginal and fantasy. He described Hester as wild and passionate, thoughtful, conservative and alien. Herzog stated that The Scarlet Letter is a story set on the fringes of civilization. Hester is an outcast like any Quaker in the Puritan colony and accepts the colony's abuses imposed on her with the dignity of a Quaker. Herzog described Hester's Aboriginal characteristics as caring and conservative. This aspect of Hester's femininity, however, is not the only trait that