Scarlet Letter: Who Should Punish A Sinner? Religion, Society, Or Ind
Scarlet Letter: Who Should Punish A Sinner? Religion, Society, or Individuals
Who should punish a sinner? Should it be religion, society, or the
individual? In Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter all three affect the main character
Hester Prynne. Religion punishes her with the Scarlet Letter, society
ostracizes her as punishment, and individually she was able to move on in life
but still returned to her haunting past where she died.
Religion plays a big part in the Scarlet Letter. Hester Prynne wore the
Scarlet Letter to remind her of the mistake ahe made. Instaed of taking Pearl
away the people wanted her to wear the "A" for adultry. Hester brought up her
child forcing the the thought of the heavenily father. Hester's whole lifestyle
was altered. She obeyed everyone and for seven years was cursed by standing on
the scaffold. The people's beliefs strongly enforced the idea that Hester would
wear the Scarlet Letter, so she did. It constantly forced the tought of the sin
she......
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