Scarlet Letter Message

The Scarlet Letter is more than just a book title, it’s a hidden message that can destroy a person’s life and tear apart mother from daughter. Hester Prynne has committed a terrible sin within her village. She had a daughter named Pearl, to represent her beauty, and cost. The reason that Hester is unwanted in her village is because she is not married to anyone. That is a horrible sin within the protestant community. So now Hester needs to keep her secret about who she had sinned with. Hester now has the threat of getting her child Pearl taken away, because of her doing. All while this is happening, Hester needs to keep a hold of her beloved child Pearl and not let the fanatic people of the town tear apart her family, all while keeping a dark …show more content…
The man doesn’t dare show his involvement with this whole situation, but between him and Hester, his true identity will not be shown to the town, but only to Hester, as seen in page 176, 1st paragraph. ‘’Under the appellation of Roger Chillingworth, the reader will remember, was hidden another name, which its former wearer had resolved should never more be spoken. It has been related, how, in the crowd that witnessed Hester Prynne’s ignominious exposure, stood a man, elderly, travel-worn, who, just emerging from the perilous wilderness, beheld the woman, in whom he hoped to find embodied the warmth and cheerfulness of home, set up as a type of sin before the people.’’ (Hawthorne 176). Another possibility to take into account is how there could be many other people who have committed the act of adultery just as Hester and Mr. Chillingworth have. That point brings up another big topic of the Scarlet Letter as well. The idea of Hypocrisy. As seen earlier in the book, when Hester was being terribly ridiculed publicly in front of all the townspeople. The same people that may have been throwing things at her and yelling at her, could most definitely be doing the same sins in their own lives, but that would never be thought or talked …show more content…
She has undergone enough inner turmoil within herself to have to bear her daughter Pearl to be taken away from her. For one single sin with two people, to cause a family to be split apart and make a religious woman threaten a town official that she would rather give her life to satan, is a sure sign of desperation. Hester would not be able to go on if the Governor would take away Pearl. There is also still a mystery to be solved inside the village. The mystery of who Hester’s secret lover is, and make sure that he is punished with jail time as well for what he did with Hester. What Hester did is indeed wrong, but she has paid the time in jail, and has been released. The town should not split not part the family from one another, just because of what she did. Now, Hester is at the mercy of her town’s officials and by god, to decide whether or not to keep her child for