Hester Prynne

 

 

Beautiful:

 

“tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale. She had dark abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes.”(Hawthorne 44. 23-25).

 

Forgiving:

 

“Let us not look back, the past is gone! Wherefore should we linger upon it now? See! With this symbol I undo it all, and make it as if it had never been!”(177. 23-25).

 

Charitable:

 

“she was quick to acknowledge her sisterhood with the race of man whenever benefits were to be conferred. None so ready as she to give of her little substance to every demand of poverty, even though the bitter-hearted pauper threw back a gibe in requital of the food brought regularly to his door, or the garments wrought for him by the fingers that could have embroidered a monarch's robe.”(140. 23-29).