“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”(Abraham Lincoln) To be American means that you are automatically granted the right to freedom, life, liberty, and happiness. Citizenship is automatically granted along with our constitutional rights. American people value independence, power, and money. Life in america is actually nothing like this, for the most part, rights are often denied to those with less money and a minority skin complexion and rules are put aside due to the discretion of other people in places of “authority”. The American Experience is corrupt because the disillusionment in today 's society makes the American dream nearly impossible.
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Although many countries see America as a threat, many also believe the world revolves around America, but in reality it 's nothing like what we 're taught to believe. Brief relevant info. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s message about disillusionment in The Scarlet Letter is paired with the hypocrisy of the characters in the book. Through most of the story, which was a span of 7 years, Dimmesdale still kept his minister position while seeing the woman he had an affair with and his daughter everyday. “‘Hush, Hester, hush!” said he, with tremulous solemnity. “The law we broke!—the sin here so awfully revealed!—let these alone be in thy thoughts! I fear! I fear! It may be, that, when we forgot our God,—when we violated our reverence each for the other’s soul,—it was thenceforth vain to hope that we could meet hereafter, in an everlasting and pure reunion’” (Hawthorne 383). The young minister had an affair and a child with a woman all while continuing to preach as a minister would, especially to a puritan community, and repenting in private. The Minister they all knew, loved, and stuck up for lied about everything. The community felt betrayed when they found out dimmesdale was pearl’s father. Betrayal is something that is very prominent in the American Experience because everyone is only looking after themselves, trying to reach their
Although many countries see America as a threat, many also believe the world revolves around America, but in reality it 's nothing like what we 're taught to believe. Brief relevant info. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s message about disillusionment in The Scarlet Letter is paired with the hypocrisy of the characters in the book. Through most of the story, which was a span of 7 years, Dimmesdale still kept his minister position while seeing the woman he had an affair with and his daughter everyday. “‘Hush, Hester, hush!” said he, with tremulous solemnity. “The law we broke!—the sin here so awfully revealed!—let these alone be in thy thoughts! I fear! I fear! It may be, that, when we forgot our God,—when we violated our reverence each for the other’s soul,—it was thenceforth vain to hope that we could meet hereafter, in an everlasting and pure reunion’” (Hawthorne 383). The young minister had an affair and a child with a woman all while continuing to preach as a minister would, especially to a puritan community, and repenting in private. The Minister they all knew, loved, and stuck up for lied about everything. The community felt betrayed when they found out dimmesdale was pearl’s father. Betrayal is something that is very prominent in the American Experience because everyone is only looking after themselves, trying to reach their