The Scarlett Letter : Sin

English Protestants created a large group of people in the 16th and 17th centuries called the Puritans. These people advocated strict religious discipline along with a strong beliefs and worshipping. The Scarlet Letter reflected on Puritan Society in several ways, from religion to discipline and punishment. Religion seemed to control everyone, the reverend was the person that everyone looked up to, and the community, as a whole, believed in fate and destiny. Puritan relationships were very restricted, therefore making adultery a terrible sin in the eyes of the community. In the 17th century, Boston was extremely strict and the laws were strongly enforced, making Hester’s sin a great

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The Scarlet Letter took place during the Puritan era which was highly moral. The Puritans were labeled as hypocrites because they were kicked out/ left England due to religious persecution, then persecuted against others’ religions. In the Scarlet Letter, the main character Hester Prynne was sent to jail and sentenced to wear a letter A on her chest for some time all due to a relationship with her lover and a bastard child. The obvious example of

Nathaniel Hawthorne's bold novel, The Scarlet Letter, revolves around sin and punishment.  The main characters of the novel sharply contrast each other in the way they react to the sin that has been committed

Sin is any action that harms our relationship with God and pulls us away from God. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, and Arthur Dimmesdale all commit different acts of sin, but also atone for their sins in their own way. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, author Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays the theme of sin through the three characters actions throughout the book. Hester Prynne committed adultery with her lover, Arthur Dimmesdale. While being married to Roger Chillingworth, she had an affair with Arthur Dimmesdale and, as a result, she gave birth to her daughter, Pearl.

Sin is the act of disrespecting God’s will and it can be viewed as something that violates the ideal relationship between God and man. Sin has its way of penetrating the soul of a person and changing a human’s personality as well as corrupting the personality of others; blinding them from the truth of the world around them. Such dominance and influence of sin is delineated in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter. In the novel, the blindness and hypocrisy present in the Puritan Society is justly substantiated through Hawthorne’s indirect characterization of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne. From the treatment of the colonists for Arthur Dimmesdale it is evident that Dimmesdale is a highly revered person that everyone

Scarlet Letter Essay Committing a sin is a very common occurrence in society, it is within human nature to succumb to wrongdoings that fall short of societal standards. The standards set within a society will usually set the punishment for a given crime, some being stricter than others. How sinners deal with their actions also differs from person to person, people all have different ways of coping with their sinful actions. In a Puritan society however, the pressures of not falling short to sin are a lot stronger, and the consequences are a lot stiffer compared to other societies.

“… Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” This verse is found in John 8:7; in this, Jesus is basically saying how no one can judge anyone because no one is perfect. No one can say anything about anybody’s sin because all sin is equal and everybody sins. In the Scarlet Letter, the Puritans did not think all sin was identical; they saw some sin as worse than others. The Puritans did not follow Jesus’ advice with Hester; today, we still don’t follow it any better.

Religion has been known to show hypocrisy in the present and pass. The Puritan society alone is a lesson in hypocrisy throughout The Scarlet Letter. The Puritans were displayed as firm believers in the Bible, but they did not stick to two things the Bible advocates: forgiveness and tolerance. The society’s basis was

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” (1850) embodies the ideals of seventeenth-century Puritan lifestyle in colonial Massachusetts and more specifically, Boston. These ideals consist of sin, religion, gender roles, and punishment. The ideal that is most prominent throughout that fictional novel is sin. Hawthorne’s use of sin conveys that it is not only something that is felt or expressed but something that can be embodied. The novel uses symbols to express this point; the biggest example being Pearl. Pearl is the daughter of the protagonist, Hester Prynne. “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne shows the point of sin through the connection of the scarlet letter Hester Prynne wears on her chest and her child, Pearl.

“Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of god, for it is written” (Romans 12:19) is often referred to when discussing one of the seven deadly sins, the sin of wrath. The bible also states that true believers of god should also “pursue righteousness, faith, love [and] peace” (2 Timothy 2:22) in reference to the sin of lust. In The Scarlet Letter, both of these sins were willingly committed by two of the most integral characters in the whole narrative. The moral consequences of sin is very drastic, but it all depends on how the sin is managed and treated by the person who is accused of the sin; although the consequences of sin can be very severe and taint the soul, one may be redeemed by completing selfless deeds that benefit

The novel, The Scarlet Letter, shows how many members of a puritan society respond to the act of sin specifically the act of adultery.The reactions between the adulterers and community vastly contrasted in three different ways. Hester Prynne, one of the adulterers, responds to her sin in her very own personal way by wearing the scarlet letter on her chest. Reverend Dimmesdale, the other adulterer, responds punishing himself. The community responds to the sin of adultery by publicly shaming Hester Prynne.

During the time of the Puritans, a sin was not only a crime against God but also a crime against the community. Hester mother of Pearl committed the sin of adultery which led to a decision by Puritans to keep her away from both the church and the community. In The Scarlet Letter a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pearl is a character who has a wide variety of symbols portrayed throughout the novel. The novel is mainly about Hester Prynne who has committed a sin of adultery. She bears a child of this forbidden passion inside a jail a place where no light can touch the depths of' her sin. She was also punished to wear a scarlet letter A pinned to her chest on her gown representing adulteress to mark her shame. Both Hester and her daughter were asked

The Scarlet Letter is an example of how any society can be haunted by hypocrisy. In this book every character gives in to hypocrisy and it is the source of their misery by creating animosity amongst each other as well as stigmas and guilt on the sinners. Even though this novel was written over a century ago, its message is still true for modern society. Society would be a better place if it were not so harmed by the hypocritical nature of most people, when someone’s inward self and outward self agree with each other, then they are truly honest.

What is sin? A question asked by many, but few may answer. The Scarlet Letter, a book written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, attempts to answer such questions by using light and dark references. While comparing Hester’s daughter, Pearl, to sin itself or comparing Chillingworth to the Devil, this book follows Puritan ways and ideologies. Hawthorne uses such tactics by using allusions to God and the Devil.