During the sixteen hundreds in a Puritan society, the way you live is judged upon how well you apply the Puritan Gospel in your life. In the books The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Crucible by Arthur Miller we were taken on a journey to see the lifestyle of a Puritan community. In The Scarlet Letter we followed a woman named Hester Prynne who committed adultery and was faced with many trials and tribulations because of her act of sin. In The Crucible we read about a group of teenage girls who lied to the reverend of the church and high status people of the community about being possessed by witches so they could avoid getting in trouble. In the end nine-teen people were executed because of their lie. In both books, Nathaniel
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That an individual 's conscience should take precedent over one’s religion, in some cases. To begin with, Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter uses pathos in his writing to say that someone 's conscience should take influence more than their religion. He does this in his text by his writing style, which is dark and gloomy. The light only shines for brief seconds in the book and then the clouds come back. Hawthorne continuously throws tragedy after tragedy in this book, and by this he was able to form pathos, and make the reader feel sorry or sad for the characters. For example, “But she named the infant ‘Pearl’, as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother 's only pleasure” (Hawthorne). In this quote Nathaniel Hawthorne puts emphasis on Hester’s misery. He does this by explaining to the reader that she named her daughter after a valuable item of jewelry; and that in the entire world, her infant was the only thing that gave her joy. Especially considering that the type of community that she lived in, with a strong Puritan society. People didn’t pay her much mind, and if they did it was usually cruel comments made towards …show more content…
I believe this because compared to the way the Puritan society lived in those times to now, there isn 't much of the same set-up within towns or states. But in cases like Hester 's where people belittled her and couldn’t look beyond her mistakes then I believe its right that your conscience should take over your religion. No one should have the right to judge you pertaining to the past, if you’ve made right with God. “On judgement day God won’t ask you about me” (Unknown). The irony in this is that everyone in Hester’s day didn’t understand this quote and sometimes I feel like everyone even today doesn’t understand it. They still talked, mocked, and continued to segregate her from the group. I do not believe adultery is right. But I believe everyone deserves a second chance. The story in The Crucible is completely different. A bunch of teenage girls who didn’t want to get in trouble listened to their conscience and lied about what really happened. Now if they had had told the truth, the nine-teen people who were executed would have been save. I’m a teenage girl, and I know how it feels to be doing something I’m not supposed to do and be tempted to lie, and I have fallen into the depths of temptation and felt the wrath of my mother and sometimes my
That an individual 's conscience should take precedent over one’s religion, in some cases. To begin with, Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter uses pathos in his writing to say that someone 's conscience should take influence more than their religion. He does this in his text by his writing style, which is dark and gloomy. The light only shines for brief seconds in the book and then the clouds come back. Hawthorne continuously throws tragedy after tragedy in this book, and by this he was able to form pathos, and make the reader feel sorry or sad for the characters. For example, “But she named the infant ‘Pearl’, as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother 's only pleasure” (Hawthorne). In this quote Nathaniel Hawthorne puts emphasis on Hester’s misery. He does this by explaining to the reader that she named her daughter after a valuable item of jewelry; and that in the entire world, her infant was the only thing that gave her joy. Especially considering that the type of community that she lived in, with a strong Puritan society. People didn’t pay her much mind, and if they did it was usually cruel comments made towards …show more content…
I believe this because compared to the way the Puritan society lived in those times to now, there isn 't much of the same set-up within towns or states. But in cases like Hester 's where people belittled her and couldn’t look beyond her mistakes then I believe its right that your conscience should take over your religion. No one should have the right to judge you pertaining to the past, if you’ve made right with God. “On judgement day God won’t ask you about me” (Unknown). The irony in this is that everyone in Hester’s day didn’t understand this quote and sometimes I feel like everyone even today doesn’t understand it. They still talked, mocked, and continued to segregate her from the group. I do not believe adultery is right. But I believe everyone deserves a second chance. The story in The Crucible is completely different. A bunch of teenage girls who didn’t want to get in trouble listened to their conscience and lied about what really happened. Now if they had had told the truth, the nine-teen people who were executed would have been save. I’m a teenage girl, and I know how it feels to be doing something I’m not supposed to do and be tempted to lie, and I have fallen into the depths of temptation and felt the wrath of my mother and sometimes my