In Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter he shows how individuals should not conform to religious and social guidelines in society. There is no sense of individualism in 1600s Salem because laws envelop every bit of human society. With all these severe rules in place, there are bound to be rebellious actions. The individual in todays society feels the need to follow the normal in society, through the scarlet letter Hawthorne demonstrates that there is no need to do so. The new Puritan society wanted to punish Hester Prynne horribly so that she would set an example of the consequences the others would receive if they committed a sin. At first the Puritans took a satisfaction in Hester Prynne's punishment, having thought they cleansed the town,
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She did not love him, but was into with him and told him: “I felt no love nor feigned any.” After this marriage Chillingworth left her alone and his next sin is his “unwillingness to forgive” Hester does not break down because of that, but her strength and her individual character grow. “She marveled how she could ever have been wrought upon to marry him!” Hester Prynne has been a victim of societies conformities, her parents were not the upper class and they only wanted the better for their daughter. Marrying this man was the only way to get wealth and have a better life. Hester had a very backed up reasoning for finding a new lover such as dimsdale, she thought that Chillingworth was killed or lost at sea. Hester then confesses: “Be it sin or not, I hate the man!”. Hester’s fault in this relationship is not her individual decision to give in to her passion and love for Dimmesdale, but “her crime most to be repented of is the original sexual incompatibility between husband and wife.” Hester judges her marriage to Chillingworth to be a more serious crime than her adultery, because it is a crime against her individualism: “Her adultery was a crime against church and state, her submission to Chillingworth an outrage against
She did not love him, but was into with him and told him: “I felt no love nor feigned any.” After this marriage Chillingworth left her alone and his next sin is his “unwillingness to forgive” Hester does not break down because of that, but her strength and her individual character grow. “She marveled how she could ever have been wrought upon to marry him!” Hester Prynne has been a victim of societies conformities, her parents were not the upper class and they only wanted the better for their daughter. Marrying this man was the only way to get wealth and have a better life. Hester had a very backed up reasoning for finding a new lover such as dimsdale, she thought that Chillingworth was killed or lost at sea. Hester then confesses: “Be it sin or not, I hate the man!”. Hester’s fault in this relationship is not her individual decision to give in to her passion and love for Dimmesdale, but “her crime most to be repented of is the original sexual incompatibility between husband and wife.” Hester judges her marriage to Chillingworth to be a more serious crime than her adultery, because it is a crime against her individualism: “Her adultery was a crime against church and state, her submission to Chillingworth an outrage against