TSL Paper Hester Prynne a beautiful woman, living in Boston, was convicted of adultery and had a child named Pearl. Her punishment for committing this crime was to a life wearing a letter "A" too stand for adultery. But after wearing the scarlet letter her beauty seemed to diminish to ruggedness. This change is significant because, Hester Prynne's appearance and hair signify the levels of will and determination she possesses at the moment. Before wearing the scarlet letter Hester was gorgeous and was envied by most woman in town.
The lawbreaker must stand in front of all their peers with them fully knowing of their crime. Standing on the scaffold as a guilty sinner would also mean that they would be shunned, as Hester was, for the rest of their lives. It seems a horrible punishment by today's standards.
The Puritans frown upon Hester and Pearl, the product of Hester’s sin. The public humiliation and obstacles Hester goes through invigorates her with strength to triumph. On the day Hester is led to the town scaffold, the townspeople, who had no sympathy for her, taunted her with cruel and harsh words. When Hester is questioned about who was Pearl’s
The extent of Hester’s punishment ran into the very fabric of the town. Everyone showed up to witness and gossip about Hester, most of it being negative (Hawthorne 49-50). Now imagine none of that happening, imagine the Puritan society and replace it with today’s society. The Puritan society is and was fundamentally flawed. They punished Hester for sleeping with another man when she was under the assumption that her previous husband was dead.
This caused her to be humiliated and punished in front of the whole town. Hester Prynne unquestionably the protagonist of this novel even though she had committed sin at the beginning. Hester Prynne was given the chance for this story to never leave the town and she wouldn’t have had to wear the letter “A”, but she decided to stay in the town and succumb everything that was given to her. She tried to accomplish the best and succumb all of the punishments that were meant to diminish her. She constantly made herself useful towards the other people, and used the talents and gifts that were given to change the meaning of her punishment into her becoming he legend of her Puritan Age.
Because she lived in such a God driven and puritan town, the judicial system of the settlement had decided for her to acknowledge her sin by embroidering a vibrant scarlet letter “A” onto her dress to symbolize adultery. She was often ostracized from the rest of the town since she was forced to wear the crimson “A” everywhere she went. As well as the letter to remind her of the wrong she had done, the affair had left her with a fatherless daughter named Pearl. Later in the novel we discover the father is the Reverend of the town, the admirable Arthur Dimmesdale. Through pain, remorse and agony the novel reveals that it is better to tell a harmless lie then to confess a hurtful truth.
Madi Seigler Mrs. Beitz AP Language 20 October 2011 The Greater Sin The novel The Scarlet Letter tells of Hester Prynne’s sin and how it affects her and the town she lives in. She has committed adultery which is a capital sin in her Puritan town; however someone else had to take part in that sin. But no man ever confesses, so he remains a mystery to the town. All except for Roger Chillingworth, who is Hester’s husband. He is able to figure out that it is the preacher in the town, Arthur Dimmesdale.
The Scarlet Letter Essay Through out The Scarlet Letter one of the main themes deals with the effects of guilt and hidden sin. The first character that inquired the effects of sin was Hester Prynne; she had slept with the Pastor of the town Arthur Dimmesdale and become pregnant while she was married even though her husband was thought to be at the bottom of the sea. Since you cannot keep a baby secret, Hester had to face the punishment of adultery, which the judge decided that she was to wear the letter A on her chest for the rest of her life. Hester had to face all the negatively things all the towns people said about her, but at least it made herself and Pearl more stronger physical and mentally. Hester worked hard to get the towns people to respect her, the little bit they do by making clothes for the whole town except for brides because they were thought to be pure.
Expository Essay In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the magistrates of the Boston colony penalize Hester Prynne by forcing her to wear a letter A on her breast, intending to isolate her from society and call attention to her sin. I feel that the letter did exactly what they anticipated. First of all, the letter did isolate her. It made Hester an outcast in almost every aspect and life for her was difficult. Second, she was looked down upon, and known to everyone as a sinner and nothing more.
Hester Prynne is the wife of a man named Chilingworth, who has sent Hester to live in a village near Boston. There, Hester commits adultery with the Reverend Dimmsedale. Although, in the beginning of the novel no one knows who the man is Hester confesses herself and refuses to give the name of the man. Hester has a child as a result of this crime. Her punishment is the wearing of a scarlet “A’ for the rest of her life, and she must stand on the scaffold of the town so everyone can see her.