Adultery In Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter is about a woman named Hester Prynne and her crime of adultery. She had a baby with man who is not her husband, and she will not reveal who that man is. Throughout The Scarlet Letter Hester represents social injustice just as the Salem Witch Trials in The Crucible do, and this injustice becomes accepted and leads to acceptance. Furthermore, Hester’s case represents injustice in the fact her case was unjustified and she was imprisoned on unfair judgement, just like the people convicted of witchcraft in Salem had been accused based off of opinion, not fact. Both have endings of acceptance of their “sin.”

“Reality is easy. Deception that's the hard the hard work” -Lauryn Hill. In the novel the Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses literary elements such as symbolism, irony and conflict to show deception and secrecy can lead to self-destruction. This relates to the Scarlet Letter because in the book the protagonist character commits an act of sin that was more than just frowned upon. Not only does the community gossip and turn their cheek to the sinner but a sickness comes along from keeping a secret from the community.

Hester Prynne and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale are the two main characters of the Scarlet Letter. While Hester’s husband is away, the two commit adultery and keep their affair a secret from the rest of the town. When the town officials realize that Hester is with child, they imprison her until the trial. The townspeople want to know who the baby’s father is but Hester refuses to tell them, even when her former husband inquires about it. As her punishment, the officials make her wear a scarlet letter “A” so everyone will know what sin she committed.

Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne committed the sin of adultery. Hester couldn’t hide this sin because she had Pearl, and she couldn’t get rid of her. Dimmesdale on the other hand was capable of hiding this sin because he wasn’t the one that got pregnant, and Hester wasn’t going to tell everyone what he did. So Dimmesdale hid his sin until the end of the book. The result of this however wasn’t a good one.

The Crucible introduces Reverend Hale as a man who believes he knows right from wrong, but after taking part in the witch trials, he leaves bewildered, questioning his morals. Furthermore, Kingston’s The Woman Warrior reveals the hardships that immigrants must face while acclimating to American culture, a dilemma that Kingston wrestles with throughout the stories. In the memoir, Brave Orchid, Kingston’s mother, remains fixed on not conforming to American values. Although Reverend Hale and Brave Orchid’s personalities diverge in their respective works, both characters react differently to major events in their lives. Though, Reverend Hale emerges as a progressive character, whereas Brave Orchid remains static. Reverend Hale from Miller’s The Crucible decides to accept the reality of the world around him and adapt while Brave Orchid from Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior remains unvaried despite her rapidly changing environment.

Guilt is an emotional feeling that can shape and mold a person's perception on his views of life. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is set in 1630’s Boston. A holy man, Reverend Dimmesdale has committed the sin of adultery, but no one knows except for him and the main character Hester Prynne. Unaware of this crime, the townspeople hold Dimmesdale in high regard and view him as a fatherly figure because he is a Reverend. They learn to respect him as a human being when during a sermon he confesses to having committed a mortal sin, but he does not tell them the exact nature of it. Over time, hidden guilt affects him greatly which results in self-inflicted physical harm in the form of self-flogging, fasting and sleep deprivation. He would also suffer through bouts of mental anguish, which would result in him having conversations with himself.

Embraced Guilt V. Self Affliction Everyone has things they are not proud of, even somethings they feel guilty about years into the future and you can deal with that guilt in a number of different ways. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, You are following a young woman named Hester Prynne who is acquitted with adultery and is sentenced to wear an, as before stated scarlet A for her crime. Throughout this story, hester has to deal with the guilt of her sin and has to endure the constant judgement of the other townspeople in a pious Puritan community. Hester is not the only one suffering from this guilt; the father of her child who also happens to be

Everyone is a sinner in the eyes of God. Each and every soul has peculiarly different

Sometimes, one may think that an action they commit is, “no big deal.” Although, on the occasion that something does go wrong, it could lead to catastrophic downfalls and inauspicious outcomes. This effect tends to happen to the doomed and ignominious Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. With each of these characters (from the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne) comes a similar theme: they have all been corrupted with sin which is the cause of their actions. Hester’s actions were determined even before the novel began.

Hester Prynne, the main character of the book "The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, commits adultery, is considered a hussy, and has a child as the result of her sin. She cheats on her husband while he is absent from town and receives a harsh punishment for her behavior already. Hester is forced to wear a scarlet letter “A” on her bosom for the rest of her life. It is now on debate on whether or not Pearl should be taken away from her mother’s guidance. This is due to the fact that she is a sinner and might not be a qualified mother for her child.It is true, that no matter what you did in the past, a child is a blessing and parents change due to the love they have for their children. Therefore, Hester

Chapter 5: Victim-Offender Mediation covers the concepts, components, elements, methodology and history of VOM. In this chapter the authors described the dimensions of VOM Effectiveness. This covers restitution and repair of damage, recidivism, diversion, cost fairness participation rates and participant satisfaction. The others even covered concerns and ongoing issues like compromising the separate preparation of the victim and offender prior to the mediation session, pressuring participation and controlling the dialogue, applying VOM in cross-culture contexts, and cultivating a referral base. (Umbreit, M. and Armour, M.P. 2006 p. 136) VOM remains central to the restorative justice movement because it serves to remind us of the centrality of the victim and the victim’s harm and the power of the victim’s voice and story to advance the dialogue, creating the context for offender’s accountability and deep learning. (Umbreit, M. and Armour, M.P. 2006 p. 137)

As Hester settled into her new home she befriended a young man, Reverend Dimmesdale. They developed a companionship over a period of two years after Hester had arrived in the new country. This union turned into an affair, which left Hester pregnant without anyone knowing the father’s identity. Hester’s husband was “lost at sea” so everyone knew that Hester’s affair was out of infidelity. The town turned against Hester and accused Hester of adultery. Hester lived in a community of Puritans who had very strick rules. Adultry was a very big sin that when committed could be resolved in death. For Hester's punishment she was lead up on the schfold in front of the whole town. It was as if she was in a trile but had nobody defending her. As she had her baby Pearl in her arms she was asked who the father was, but she would not say. Soon the reader finds out that the father is Reven Dimmesdale. During Hester's trile her was very nervous that she would tell. If she would have told he would have been sentenced to death. To the end of her trile she did not say who was the father but she could only live because of her baby and she has to wear a letter A on her cloths for now

In the stories of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the antagonist characters display parallel story lines through their searches for the enemy. Roger Chillingworth, the former husband of Hester Prynne and the antagonist of The Scarlet Letter, works against his wife in order to find her untold second lover. Frankenstein is a contrasting story in which an unnamed monster is the antagonist towards his human creator, Dr. Frankenstein. Yet despite quite different story lines, the two characters possess traits that exibit parallels between them. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, Roger Chillingworth displays the startling passionate characteristics of an unwavering drive to seek out his foe, madness as his focus on his search takes over his entire being, and terrible anguish when his task is unexpectedly over, all of which are reflected in the daemon created at the hand of Dr. Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley 's novel Frankenstein.

In the novel, Animal Farm, George Orwell mocks the Russian Revolution by using animals to represent Russian leaders and followers. The animals rebel against the humans after an inspirational speech by Old Major, the prized white boar. The setting of the story is on a farm in England in the 1940’s. The animals were being trapped on this farm so they can work for their drunken farmer. Napoleon is a very controlling and manipulative leader on the farm.

The puritans arrived in America in the mid-17th century and with them they brought their intense religious views, including their view on sin. Puritans believed that people were born sinners, those who were meant to go to heaven were destined from birth. But although they believed themselves sinners, puritans still sought to be as holy as they could, living their humble, godfearing lives. But the people who sinned, even minor sins, were faced with the justice of the church. In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the book opens on one of these puritan punishments, public shaming of Hester Prynne, known adulterer. Adultery is only one of the sins feature in this novel. While, Hester has a symbol of adultery sewn onto her chest and a symbol