Salem, a small town located in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in the Puritan time period was shaken when twenty people and two dogs were sentenced to death for crimes that were not even rational. From a peaceful little community Salem had become a town of nightmares in a matter of months. Certain aspects of the Puritan lifestyle could be to blame for the hysteria. The Puritan time period was one of the most interesting, complex, and strangest milestones in early American history. Even after hundreds of years it is still written about and studied today. This time period has inspired numerous authors and playwrights to write about it. There are movies, books, plays, TV shows, and much more based upon the Puritan lifestyle and their unusual beliefs.
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They both are humiliated and left ashamed. Both feel hated by those who they care about. Also John and Hester find that their normal lives have been striped from them, and they live the life of shame and uncomfortableness.
Punishment takes a cruel form when it hits Hester. She lives her entire marked by her sin as she wears it on her chest. Being young and naive Pearl does not know what the letter stands for and what why her mother wears it. Pearl questions the on multiple occasions “Mother the sunshine does not love it runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom” (Hawthorne Chapter 16)This makes the letter become a symbol of darkness and evil. The light does not want to touch and hides from this evil.
Hester lives many years away from the man that she loves, the man she committed adultery with, to keep him safe and so he won't have to feel what she was going humiliation and shame she was going through. In the end it's all for nothing. Arthur dies right before they can escape this is another could symbolize another punishment this one being from God. Hester commuted of the worst sin that can be committed. She broke the rules of God so he took away what was one of the most important thing to
They both are humiliated and left ashamed. Both feel hated by those who they care about. Also John and Hester find that their normal lives have been striped from them, and they live the life of shame and uncomfortableness.
Punishment takes a cruel form when it hits Hester. She lives her entire marked by her sin as she wears it on her chest. Being young and naive Pearl does not know what the letter stands for and what why her mother wears it. Pearl questions the on multiple occasions “Mother the sunshine does not love it runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom” (Hawthorne Chapter 16)This makes the letter become a symbol of darkness and evil. The light does not want to touch and hides from this evil.
Hester lives many years away from the man that she loves, the man she committed adultery with, to keep him safe and so he won't have to feel what she was going humiliation and shame she was going through. In the end it's all for nothing. Arthur dies right before they can escape this is another could symbolize another punishment this one being from God. Hester commuted of the worst sin that can be committed. She broke the rules of God so he took away what was one of the most important thing to