The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter is about a woman named Hester Prynne who lived in a Boston Puritan settlement in the seventeenth century. Her husband sends her to America to Boston with the thought that he would follow her, but he never arrives. In the meantime Hester has an affair and gives birth to a daughter, but she never tells anyone who the father is. Hester is punished for adultery. She has to spend three hours on a scaffold, and she must wear a scarlet letter “A” on her breast for the rest of her life. She also has to do charity work for the community.
One day Hester is being led to the town scaffold from the prison, and there is an old man in the crowd watching Hester. He is told by another person that she is being punished …show more content…
The setting takes place in a Puritan settlement in Boston in the seventeenth century. The Puritans came to America from England to escape intolerance and a lack of freedom. They “were a group of English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England from all Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed” (Puritans). The passing of Governor Winthrop in the story marks the end of an older organization, and the beginning of a new one. Winthrop was the Massachusetts Bay colony’s first governor and one of the men in charge for the introduction of the Puritan society (Puritans). During the middle of the seventeenth century women’s roles began to change and they became more active and independent. Hester is a perfect example of the independent woman who leaves England and comes to America by herself to start a new …show more content…
Even though people were after a new order and a new life they still carried with them the past customs, and their ingrained rules. If one did not conform to a mold it was not acceptable for fear that the community would crumble. There was no room for individualism. Hester happened to commit the serious act of adultery with a minister and bear a child which was an unacceptable act in the eyes of the community, and this act coupled with her personality made her life very hard to bear. Her daughter Pearl brought her joy and sorrow at the same time, but she grew up to be in many ways independent and different than the rest like her mother Hester. Eventually, Hester was able to resume a semi normal life, and almost towards the end of her life is when she was able to live her life on her own
The Scarlet Letter is about a woman named Hester Prynne who lived in a Boston Puritan settlement in the seventeenth century. Her husband sends her to America to Boston with the thought that he would follow her, but he never arrives. In the meantime Hester has an affair and gives birth to a daughter, but she never tells anyone who the father is. Hester is punished for adultery. She has to spend three hours on a scaffold, and she must wear a scarlet letter “A” on her breast for the rest of her life. She also has to do charity work for the community.
One day Hester is being led to the town scaffold from the prison, and there is an old man in the crowd watching Hester. He is told by another person that she is being punished …show more content…
The setting takes place in a Puritan settlement in Boston in the seventeenth century. The Puritans came to America from England to escape intolerance and a lack of freedom. They “were a group of English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England from all Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed” (Puritans). The passing of Governor Winthrop in the story marks the end of an older organization, and the beginning of a new one. Winthrop was the Massachusetts Bay colony’s first governor and one of the men in charge for the introduction of the Puritan society (Puritans). During the middle of the seventeenth century women’s roles began to change and they became more active and independent. Hester is a perfect example of the independent woman who leaves England and comes to America by herself to start a new …show more content…
Even though people were after a new order and a new life they still carried with them the past customs, and their ingrained rules. If one did not conform to a mold it was not acceptable for fear that the community would crumble. There was no room for individualism. Hester happened to commit the serious act of adultery with a minister and bear a child which was an unacceptable act in the eyes of the community, and this act coupled with her personality made her life very hard to bear. Her daughter Pearl brought her joy and sorrow at the same time, but she grew up to be in many ways independent and different than the rest like her mother Hester. Eventually, Hester was able to resume a semi normal life, and almost towards the end of her life is when she was able to live her life on her own