Adultery In Nathaniel Hawthorne's Book 'The Scarlet Letter'
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Nathaniel hawthorne’s book the Scarlet letter depicts the life of hester prynne and the town of boston through the experiences of religion standpoints, The Hypocrisy of the town’s people, Also the social judgement that her and her daughter endure. Adultery is a sin in the eyes of god it is also looked down upon people. It says in the bible in Leviticus 20:10 If a man commits adultery that both the adulterer and the adulteress both be put to death. But it is also said Matthew 5: 27-28 That you have heard what is it is said that one is not supposed to commit adultery but if you look at a woman with lustful intent then he has already committed adultery with her in his heart. In the Scarlet Letter Hester is led to believe that her husband was dead so she …show more content…
By putting that red A on Hester the town of boston has made every citizen that looks upon her automatically judge her and that makes them sinners in the eyes of god and in the bible it says that all sin is equal in the eyes of God so are they any better than the woman they have just punished of course all sins are not the same in our eyes a jay walker is not going to get the same punishment as a murderer. But someone that does not deserve the punishment she is given is pearl just because she is the child of her Hester she was the result of Dimmesdale and Hester sleeping together but the moment she is born she does not have wear the red A as her mother but she does have to upon the scaffold with her mother as a newborn then also as young child. She is also shunned by the entire town of Boston as Hester is no one will talk to her although she is too young to understand why at the time she has some idea it has something to do with the letter A her mother wears. Her development through the book about the letter A is that she starts to depend on the letter the town has mentally hurt this child to the point that if her mother is not wearing the red A then pearl does not even
Nathaniel hawthorne’s book the Scarlet letter depicts the life of hester prynne and the town of boston through the experiences of religion standpoints, The Hypocrisy of the town’s people, Also the social judgement that her and her daughter endure. Adultery is a sin in the eyes of god it is also looked down upon people. It says in the bible in Leviticus 20:10 If a man commits adultery that both the adulterer and the adulteress both be put to death. But it is also said Matthew 5: 27-28 That you have heard what is it is said that one is not supposed to commit adultery but if you look at a woman with lustful intent then he has already committed adultery with her in his heart. In the Scarlet Letter Hester is led to believe that her husband was dead so she …show more content…
By putting that red A on Hester the town of boston has made every citizen that looks upon her automatically judge her and that makes them sinners in the eyes of god and in the bible it says that all sin is equal in the eyes of God so are they any better than the woman they have just punished of course all sins are not the same in our eyes a jay walker is not going to get the same punishment as a murderer. But someone that does not deserve the punishment she is given is pearl just because she is the child of her Hester she was the result of Dimmesdale and Hester sleeping together but the moment she is born she does not have wear the red A as her mother but she does have to upon the scaffold with her mother as a newborn then also as young child. She is also shunned by the entire town of Boston as Hester is no one will talk to her although she is too young to understand why at the time she has some idea it has something to do with the letter A her mother wears. Her development through the book about the letter A is that she starts to depend on the letter the town has mentally hurt this child to the point that if her mother is not wearing the red A then pearl does not even