The story was to symbolize about the sin and regrets. The purpose of the story, The Scarlet Letter, was to illustrate how shaming the people in pubic for their sins and suffering the consequences in front of everyone. The way that the past affects the present is that it still happens today only not as bad as the past. The past in the book put everyone that was in sin in front of the town to show their sins and torture them for it. Today we are known for our sins and are faced on social media for the sins but not tortured, just humiliated by our wrongdoing. Hypocrisy is everywhere past and present; it is carried on and just gets worse each generations. Adultery was a capital sin; both the adulteress and adulterer were required to be execution, according to the early times. So if the husband wanted to keep the wife alive after she had committed the sin of adultery, the law said that she would have to die for it. But in the story they were severely punished and dealt with the consequences. Today, people get a divorce if the one committed adultery instead of requiring death. Everybody suffers from their sins today and has to deal with the consequences that are led towards
The story was to symbolize about the sin and regrets. The purpose of the story, The Scarlet Letter, was to illustrate how shaming the people in pubic for their sins and suffering the consequences in front of everyone. The way that the past affects the present is that it still happens today only not as bad as the past. The past in the book put everyone that was in sin in front of the town to show their sins and torture them for it. Today we are known for our sins and are faced on social media for the sins but not tortured, just humiliated by our wrongdoing. Hypocrisy is everywhere past and present; it is carried on and just gets worse each generations. Adultery was a capital sin; both the adulteress and adulterer were required to be execution, according to the early times. So if the husband wanted to keep the wife alive after she had committed the sin of adultery, the law said that she would have to die for it. But in the story they were severely punished and dealt with the consequences. Today, people get a divorce if the one committed adultery instead of requiring death. Everybody suffers from their sins today and has to deal with the consequences that are led towards