Hawthorne's references to Women. Using "The Scarlet Letter" as an example, this essay explores how Hawthorne portrays and presents women in his novels.

The quintessence of classic American literature is Nathaniel Hawthorne. The quintessences of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classics are his anti-transcendentalist views. However, there is a subtler view of this author, especially portrayed in The Scarlet Letter, which is also characterized. This is his portrayal of women and femininity. He portrays women as essential, good contributors to society, and a wonderful being. Hawthorne has always presented the few good women of his books as beautiful and tall. Hester …

…to Nathaniel Hawthorne presented women as more gentile, more persisting, and more essential than men. Hawthorne felt women to be more sacrificing and caring than the men. He felt womanhood is one of the greatest things of life. Hawthorne also describes women as possessing more will to live, and having more passive courage than men. He indirectly illustrates, using his novels, that without the charitable, courageous, persisting, and gentile women society would cease to exist.