Hester As A Puritan In The Scarlet Letter

Hester as a sinner vs as a puritan: Hester is introduced as a very beautiful young lady, “The woman lady was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale...” Hawthorne (60) When she is let out of jail she is silent and grabs hold of her newborn baby tightly pushing her toward her breast where the Scarlet “A” was branded. She walks on to the scaffold she has a flashback of England suddenly becoming aware of the stern faces looking up at her, Hester painfully realizes her present position of shame and punishment. In this time her crime was a serious thing to be an adulteress is unforgivable so the man asked who the husband was but Hester refused to give up the name of her paramour the man said you stand here in ignominy and refuse to tell who the father is. Hester stands there in silence, not with hubris but with pain, sorrow, and guilt. As the years went by and pearl Hester 's daughter grew up the A on Hester 's breast changed it went from controlling her to her owning the letter no letting it get to her but she still is getting punished because she is reminded of her sin from pearl.”Pearl, represented the scarlet letter both in dress and …show more content…
Dimmesdale feels like all the pain and trouble he had is now gone for the moment, all their sins just wont be forgiven, Tocqueville states that “such a condition can not Everette the soul...”saying that their sin cannot be justified. In their society its a big crime to have cheated, in the 20th century if you cheat its immoral and wrong but not illegal and you wont get punished like you would in their time. People in the 20th century cheat almost all the time and they aren 't put on a scaffold or branded with the scarlet letter. Our society is different though theirs was a theocracy and our society is a democracy. The sins are still the same but treated