This document summarizes the characterization of Lily Briscoe from Virginia Woolf's novel "To the Lighthouse" and Hester Prynne from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter". It describes Lily as an unmarried, independent artist who expresses herself through painting. Hester is described as a woman punished for adultery who stands alone against Puritan society. The document then analyzes both characters as individuals who refused social norms and were decision makers, noting how aspects of their lives connect to the authors. It concludes that both novels can be considered feminist works.

1. Presentation by: Dhruvi Chavda
Roll No.: 6
Semester: 3rd
Paper Name: The Modernist
Literature
Topic: Characterization of lily
Briscoe and Hester Prynne
Submitted to: Department of
English
M. K. Bhavnagar University

2. Characters from the novel

3. Lily Briscoe is the character of Virginia Woolf’s
“To The Lighthouse” :-

4. Hester Prynne is the character of Virginia
Woolf’s “The scarlet letter” :-

5. Lily Briscoe:
Young and unmarried
woman.
She is a friend of Mr.
Ramsay.
 Independent, devoted
artist.
 Serious and deep thinker
 Quite express her
emotions through
paintings.

6. Hester Prynne:
Woman with a god
gifted beauty.
 Young, honest,
powerful, strong, fearless.
 Punished for adultery
sin.
 Fighter of the Puritan
Society.
Earn respect by standing
alone against all the
Puritan customs.

7. Lily as an individual character:
 Lily’s character somewhere connects to the
life of Virginia Woolf.
 She refused social norms.
 Her silence sometimes have deep meaning.
 Stream of consciousness.
 Lily begins portraits of Mrs. Ramsay at the
beginning of the novel but still in the end of
the novel she was unable to complete.
 She undergoes with drastic transformation
in the novel.

8. Hester as an individual character:
She was portrayed as a intelligent and
fighter in the novel.
 Prominent mother figure to the women of
the Puritan Society.
Circumstances which she faced makes her
important character.
Struggles for acceptance.
Pearl was the reason oh her raise in the
novel.
At the end, she stood alone in the novel as
an individual.

9. Minor reading of both the lady character:
Both the characters are
independent and path maker.
Lily’s character very near to the
Virginia’s real life.
Same way Nathaniel Portraits
some of his personal experiences
which he had gone threw with
the help of Hester’s character.
Both are decision makers.
Both the novel can be consider
as a Feministic novel.

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