Shame In The Scarlet Letter
Shame of Teenage Pregnancy and the Scarlet Letter
Shame affects everyone in their lives sooner or later. People don’t all feel it in the same way. In the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne the main character Hester Prynne knows how it feels to be ashamed or embarrassed. She’s shamed because while she was married she cheated on her husband. She ended up having a baby with another man. To punish her she was commanded to wear a letter “A” for adultery, by the townspeople, to always be reminded of what she did. During the book Hester tries her hardest to not show her embarrassment but it still ends up coming out in certain parts. Another person that tries to be strong during what could be very shameful experience is …show more content…
I say this because it’s always there reminding them of their mistake, and it’s something they don’t want people to know but they’re obviously going to find out. Since, teenage pregnancy has been happening a lot more often people have become more understanding about it. If this happened back then imagine what they would have done. Hester was an adult and still had a horrible punishment, now if she was a teenager the punishment probably would have been times worse. Like I said Hester tried to be strong in the whole situation. While she was on the scaffold she had a “burning blush and yet a haughty smile” (50). This showed that even though she was trying to make it seem like it didn’t bother her; it still did with her burning blush. What the burning blush meant was that her face was red and she was embarrassed with herself. On the other side the girls that are pregnant as teenagers have to face a lot of shame. They have many of decisions to make like if they should stay in school, what they’re going to do after high school, and the biggest question are they going to keep the baby. I know girls that stay in school during it have a lot of courage. I say this because as they walk through the halls everyone stares at them and has something to say, most of the time it’s not good things. People need to realize that the girl most like wasn’t planning to have a baby; it was an accident, like with Hester in The Scarlet Letter. Like how Pearl was
Shame affects everyone in their lives sooner or later. People don’t all feel it in the same way. In the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne the main character Hester Prynne knows how it feels to be ashamed or embarrassed. She’s shamed because while she was married she cheated on her husband. She ended up having a baby with another man. To punish her she was commanded to wear a letter “A” for adultery, by the townspeople, to always be reminded of what she did. During the book Hester tries her hardest to not show her embarrassment but it still ends up coming out in certain parts. Another person that tries to be strong during what could be very shameful experience is …show more content…
I say this because it’s always there reminding them of their mistake, and it’s something they don’t want people to know but they’re obviously going to find out. Since, teenage pregnancy has been happening a lot more often people have become more understanding about it. If this happened back then imagine what they would have done. Hester was an adult and still had a horrible punishment, now if she was a teenager the punishment probably would have been times worse. Like I said Hester tried to be strong in the whole situation. While she was on the scaffold she had a “burning blush and yet a haughty smile” (50). This showed that even though she was trying to make it seem like it didn’t bother her; it still did with her burning blush. What the burning blush meant was that her face was red and she was embarrassed with herself. On the other side the girls that are pregnant as teenagers have to face a lot of shame. They have many of decisions to make like if they should stay in school, what they’re going to do after high school, and the biggest question are they going to keep the baby. I know girls that stay in school during it have a lot of courage. I say this because as they walk through the halls everyone stares at them and has something to say, most of the time it’s not good things. People need to realize that the girl most like wasn’t planning to have a baby; it was an accident, like with Hester in The Scarlet Letter. Like how Pearl was