Scarlet Letter
"Lying is done with words, also with silence," famous quote by Adrienne Rich. Most people that sin are unknown, but others are known of because of public punishment. Back in the Puritan time the act of the scarlet letter was a wide known punishment. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthore, the scarlet letter is used as a punishment to Hester Prynne for adultery. Though the letter was for one person's punishment it affected others. Anyone involved with a sinner's sin will feel pain, isolation, aguish, or human discomfort in their life.
Hester Prynne, the sinner of the novel has the worse life while wearing the symbol of sin- the scarlet letter "A". Wearing the scarlet letter is changing Hester's life. She no longer feels all her passion of a woman anymore. "It's been a sad transformation," (Page 160). Hester Prynne is changing so much. She's being alienated for a long period; she can't feel love or long for anyone. She doesn't feel like she can ever love. She's......
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