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Hester Prynne - College Essay

Hester Prynne

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, a dark tale of sin and redemption,centers around the small Puritan community of Boston during the 17th century. In the midst of this small community is . She is a woman that has defied the Puritans, taken the consequences and in the end conformed with the Puritans. It did,
however, take great effort to settle down and become a women of honor again.
, through the eyes of the Puritans, is an extreme sinner. She has gone against the Puritan ways by committing Adultery. The Puritans believed that Hester was a lost soul that could only be saved by sincere and thorough repentance. For this
irrevocably harsh sin, she must wear a symbol of ...

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of the circumstances. The Puritans
are grim, forbidding people. Nonetheless they have a degree of dignity and authority. They lack sympathy and discrimination. In their eyes all crimes are equal.
Hester is punished by the Puritan society by wearing the scarlet letter A on the bosom of her dress and standing on “the weather darkened scaffold”(p.234) for three hours. The Scaffold is a painful task to bear. The townspeople have gathered around to
gossip and stare at her. They yell horrid things at her. One matron screams “At the very least, they should have put the brand of hot iron to her forehead.” (p.59) Obviously, the Puritans did not believe that this punishment was cruel enough. The screams of this
matron showed just how unforgiving the Puritans were. Here one can see the difference between the Puritans and Hester. She was standing on scaffold shedding her honor because she had sinned in love. Although she had committed a sin, the reasons ...

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Added: 5/28/2008 11:07:41 PM
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