A significant theme in Nathaniel Hawthorn’s "The Scarlet Letter" is feminism. In the novel, Hester Prynne shows these ideas of feminism by overcoming public humiliation and going against the ideals that the Puritan town thought were right for her. To the puritan community, Hester Prynne has deliberately gone against the church values that stress purity and holiness. Hester is the perfect example of a feminist. In Puritan times, women were thought of a lesser than men. Women were supposed to raise children, cook, clean and give their kids good morals and values. Most women did not have jobs and obeyed what their husbands told them to do. Hester can be seen as a feminist because of they way she goes against the Puritan’s ideas of how a woman’s life should be like. Hester denies the stereotypical and superficial image that women are dependent on men in the puritan society. Hester realizes that she does not need to remain dependent on her husband. Hester through her struggles and isolation, showed the resilience in women and her ability to preserver even when at her lowest stage. She refuses to sell out and lower herself by revealing the name of the father. She takes the punishment because she cannot lower herself. She raises a child, supports herself financially and keeps her dignity even when made stand on a scaffold for three hours to be publicly humiliated. Despite being condemned and mocked of, her independence prevails as she sewed a very elaborate and detailed A on her dress, and she refuses to let the people of the town have total power over her feelings. Instead of staying completely isolated she sews beautifully detailed gloves and other items for the leaders of the community such as Governor Bellingham. Throughout the novel we can see a switch in authority, Dimmesdale develops a sensitivity to Hester, which she takes advantage of. It is as if the two character switched roles; "Some attribute had departed from her, the pe