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The Scarlet Letter
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Scarlet Letter Paper October 22, 2002 In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorn brings to light many issues that arise through living the extremist life that the Puritan’s of New England had lived. Hawthorn’s Puritans followed the word of god as they perceived it to be stated through their clergy and there own interpretations of the bible, sin and evil were all around them, and they strove everyday to escape it. They lived in a society which was conducted by the magistrates and the ministers, who the people saw to be holy, and knowledgeable. In fact, these characters were so revered by the townspeople that whatever they spoke in public was taken in and embedded into the minds of whoever was listening, until all in the Puritans thought alike, with their minds only open to Gods work, and Gods words. The little Village where the book takes place was very black and white, either you were doing what appeared to be the lords’ work, or you were committing sin, there was no in between. A man who stole may as well have killed someone, for the punishments were as severe for both of the crimes, a sin was a sin. Hester Prine was a regular churchgoing puritan woman, keeping away from transgressions and following the word of god, until she fell for, and in this case also fell on, the reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. She had a child, and committing adultery with him. Hester had been married when she was very young, openly she admits that she was never in love with her husband, and it had been many years since she had seen her husband, he had left her in the town alone, for an unknown time, and yet she was still known as a married woman and the society forced her to where an embroidered A on her bosom for the purposes of showing her sin to all, and letting her live and be ashamed of it for as long as she stayed in her village by the sea. This is where Hester’s as well as Dimmesdale’s story begins. She had committed a sin through passion of the heart. In this day and age none would blame her for her crime, for she was never in love with the man she married in the first place. But, beginning the motif of the Puritans being close-minded asses, we see them ridicule and bash Hester, snickering and making fun of her in her everyday activities. They do not feel that following her heart was an acceptable act, nor does she, as she explains in the book. “---it may seem marvellous that this woman should still call that place her home, where, and where only, she must needs be the type of shame.
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Title: The Scarlet Letter
Words: 2264
Rating: None
Pages: 9.1
submitted by: justinw
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