named Hester Prynne who commits adultery and is alienated from her Puritan society. She was miserably judged and made fun of the rest of her life while living with two of her consequences. One of these consequences was her daughter, Pearl, who was a constant reminder of her sin. The second consequence was a scarlet letter “A” on her chest. Nathaniel Hawthorne reveals the standard of how the Puritans treat sin in their society, and what the Puritans believe is right and wrong through Hester Prynne’s
Hawthorne’s Fiction.” She comments on Hawthorne's writing which includes The Scarlet Letter. In Hawthorne's novel Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth repeatedly transgress the religious laws of the Puritan society they follow. Hester's affair with Arthur Dimmesdale causes Roger, the husband whom she thought dead, to seek vengeance since he feels humiliated. Although both Hester and Arthur sin, Roger’s sins are made with the intention of harming the other parties involved. Roger's mass
The Puritan society talked about by Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter, is shown to be extremely hypocritical. Shown in the book, the Puritans love to criticize others, and refuse to think that they might be wrong themselves, even when their actions go against their own religion. Also, Puritan society is hypocritical because they said they only worried about God’s grace, when in reality they only talked about sin and how bad people were, like the words of Jonathan Edwards. Puritan hypocrisy
1800s; the books have a greater connection with their common themes. The Scarlet letter was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and was first published in 1850. The novel follows the life of Hester Prynne in 17th Century Boston, Massachusetts. Her struggle to live a hypocritical society that bashes her buts loves a sinner of the same crime and a “leech” of a doctor that has a vendetta to fill. The Count of Monte Cristo was written by Alexandre Dumas and was first published in 1844. This novel follows the