Scarlet letter
The right and wrong of our life are determined by the moral rules of our cruel society. The author, Nathanel Hawthorne expresses this idea in one of his masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter. Born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts; he lived with his widowed mother and two younger sisters, Maria Louisa and Elizabeth. He had the must pleasant and normal boyhood, but for the next 12 year he was absorbed by unhappiness and self-doubt as he tries to master the skill of writing. In 1837 he published Twice-Told Tales and obtained a steady income. Then he published The Scarlet Letter, and it brought him immediate recognition. The Scarlet Letter is a book that criticized the Puritan society of the era. The story told is about a woman named Hester Prynne who committed adultery with Arthur Dimmesdale in an unforgiving place. Hester was force by the church to wear the letter 'A' on her for the rest of her life as a reminder to the town-people of her immoral act. Her husband, Roger Chillingworth discovered that she had committed the immoral act with Dimmesdale. Then he sets himself ready for revenge because of the constant fighting between Dimmesdale and Chillingworth; they both eventually died. After their death Hester took her daugh
Hester had to stand on the scaffold as the church told her so, "With almost a serene deportment, therefore, Hester Prynne though his portion of her ordeal, and came to a sort of scaffold, at the western extremity of the market place. "Little accustomed in her long seclusion from society, to measure her ideas of right and wrong by any standard external to herself, Hester saw-or seemed to see-that there lay a responsibility upon reference to the clergyman which she owed to no other, nor to the whole world besides. 153) The personal feeling of Hester didn't allow to be able to express herself freely. She willingly helped other and at the same time she helped herself by gaining herself more respect. "The scarlet letter had not done its office. Living our lives based on our conscience will make us live a more fulfilling life. Our lives should be based on our human nature and our conscience. "I would speak a word you, a word that concern us much. It has now become part of her, part of her personal feeling and a symbol of love. Her hard work and effort made her scarlet letter stand for another meaning. They said that it meant "Able"; so strong was Hester Prynne, with a women's strength. 163) Hester's scarlet letter not only represented a symbol of honor, but also a symbol from heaven. We should do what we think is right not what the society thinks.
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