Sethe Vs. Hester
..., tries to make Sethe and Denver realize that Beloved is not an innocent child. Denver realizes that Beloved is getting a lot of attention from Sethe. At a certain point Denver takes over by getting a job and trying to get the community to help her and her mother. At one point the whole town despised Sethe and her family because she was a murderer. But now the town comes to help Denver and her mother, they chase away Beloved. This allows the family to live happily at 124 now. Hester is a white woman from Europe who moves to the states before her husband can. She gets intimate with a young man who becomes the father of her daughter, Pearl. The town despises her because she has committed adultery, so as a penalty she is forced to wear the letter “A” on her chest. The town’s people tell her that the “A” can be taken off her chest if she would only admit to who the man was. Hester knows that if she were to tell that the man’s life would be ruined, considering he was a high individual in the town. Hester doesn’t allow this to damage her; she continues to improve herself every day. She doesn’t allow the town and their comments to get the better of her, unlike Sethe who does let them ruin her with their comments. Hester raises her daughter Pearl the best way she can, with all the love and care she can possibly give her. Hester Prynne is the more admirable woman than Sethe. Hester merely had an affair, while Sethe tried to kill her children. Hester furthermore takes responsibilities for her actions. She knows that what she did was wrong. She refused to tell the towns people who the father was for she knew that it would ruin him and his reputation in the town. Sethe on the other hand tried to kill he children to prevent them from slavery. She was looking after her children but at the same she time she knew what she was doing was wrong and did nothing to stop herself. Therefore Hester is the more admirable woman. Hester is unlike Sethe in the way that she tries to help the less fortunate. She cares for the poor by bringing them food and clothes. People in her community soon learned how respectable of a woman Hester is, and started to show her she is appreciated. They see how she overcame the differences they placed upon her and became a better women. Sethe and Hester are different in as many ways as they are similar. Both communities they live in look down on them for things they have done wrong. They are both separated from the town. Both are affectionate and gentle mothers, who care for their young daughters and try to raise them into the most beautiful, intelligent women they possibly can. Ultimately both of these towns learned to respect them, and to see how astonishing they are. They both grow into very satisfied and dignified women, who are soon role models for the communities that once despised them for the sins they committed in the past. These women where discriminated by their communities for different reasons. Sethe’s was because she had committed a murder, Hester because she had committed adultery. Peggy Ochoa said “The dynamics of religious "othering," especially those which conflate Christianity and "the white man's burden," closely parallel and are often in...