Adultery
Hester cheats on her husband while he is away and, as far as she and the rest of the town know, dead. When the town learns about her adultery, they imprison her for years. Eventually, she gets out of prison in turn for an even worse punishment. Every day she is required to wear a scarlet letter A sewn into her clothes and she must spend hours on a scaffold being ridiculed by the townspeople for her crime.
As far as I knew, my husband was dead. He went out to sea four years ago and never returned. I made one mistake and now I lost many years of my life to the prison, and every day I am required to remind the town of my mistake by being tormented for hours, and wearing this scarlet A. The worse part is that I have to raise this baby that will remind me of my sin …show more content…
Today I was whipped. They thought I had put a spell on Betty to prevent her from moving, or breathing, or talking. But I love my Betty and would do no such thing to hurt her, but they don’t believe me, they only believe those evil, evil girls.
Abuse
Dimmesdale goes through a lot of mental abuse in The Scarlet Letter. The guilt of knowing what major sin he committed, and seeing someone else be punished for it is a lot. Yet, he is still too scared to actually fix the problem by admitting his sins and asking for forgiveness. This takes a toll when it causes him to stress enough to the point where it literally begins to kill him.
Everybody is hurting Hester for what I have done to her, but everyone is praising me. The town sees me as God’s messenger, but they wouldn’t if they knew that I have committed the biggest sin of all. Everything I have done and will do is a mess up and the guilt is hurting. The only way to stop it is to admit my failure, but that would just make things worse. I fear that Roger knows everything and that he has been poisoning me, and I have started to feel
Hester cheats on her husband while he is away and, as far as she and the rest of the town know, dead. When the town learns about her adultery, they imprison her for years. Eventually, she gets out of prison in turn for an even worse punishment. Every day she is required to wear a scarlet letter A sewn into her clothes and she must spend hours on a scaffold being ridiculed by the townspeople for her crime.
As far as I knew, my husband was dead. He went out to sea four years ago and never returned. I made one mistake and now I lost many years of my life to the prison, and every day I am required to remind the town of my mistake by being tormented for hours, and wearing this scarlet A. The worse part is that I have to raise this baby that will remind me of my sin …show more content…
Today I was whipped. They thought I had put a spell on Betty to prevent her from moving, or breathing, or talking. But I love my Betty and would do no such thing to hurt her, but they don’t believe me, they only believe those evil, evil girls.
Abuse
Dimmesdale goes through a lot of mental abuse in The Scarlet Letter. The guilt of knowing what major sin he committed, and seeing someone else be punished for it is a lot. Yet, he is still too scared to actually fix the problem by admitting his sins and asking for forgiveness. This takes a toll when it causes him to stress enough to the point where it literally begins to kill him.
Everybody is hurting Hester for what I have done to her, but everyone is praising me. The town sees me as God’s messenger, but they wouldn’t if they knew that I have committed the biggest sin of all. Everything I have done and will do is a mess up and the guilt is hurting. The only way to stop it is to admit my failure, but that would just make things worse. I fear that Roger knows everything and that he has been poisoning me, and I have started to feel