Making someone a public outcast as a form of punishment can bring many negative consequences for him/her. In the novel the “Scarlet Letter”, Hester was treated differently and was unwelcomed by the public because of her scarlet letter. Also, in the article “Concerns Raised On “Scarlet Letter” For Drunk Drivers,” people could be targeted by police and others if everyone knew what they had done. In “Companies ‘Named And Shamed’ For Bad Behavior,” the author explains how newspapers are trying to shame
Public Shaming is something that can be accepted with different outlooks. For example, some view it as a hideous, gruesome display of how the consequences can be delivered. However, others see it as the only way the person of wrong-doing will be able to learn from their mistakes. With no precedents, our society may have never turned out the way it is today. In Source A, The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne undergoes public shame through minimal interaction with her peers, and the placement of the embroidered
Recently in the media we have seen women publicly put on trial for finding their private photos suddenly made very public, and shamed because of the nature of the photos. However others claim that if they been men, the photos would have been celebrated. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne, protagonist, was embodied with deep contradictions like being holy and sinful and bad and beautiful. The passage was filled of probe themes like sin, redemption, guilt, revenge
Beginning in seventeenth century Boston, Massachusetts, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays the fortitude of the Puritan society as well as major imperfections of its beliefs and religion. Using his familiarity of the Puritan ways of life, Hawthorne not only expresses his fondness of the culture, but also institutes a concern for the judgmental and irrational behaviors that are enforced by the Puritan religion. Hugo McPherson has claimed, “Hawthorne’s rejection of the Calvinist view
novel, The Scarlet Letter (1850) Hester Prynne is the main female protagonist. Written) by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and throughout the book, a hostile New England puritanical community alienates her. This is because she conceives and delivers a child, Pearl, out of wedlock as the result of a relationship with a man preacher named Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale whom she is not married to. The only apparent salvation for Hester is for her to reveal the name of the father of her child to the public. Hester refuses
will hurt us in the future. Majority of us have encountered temptation at least once in our lives. Whether it be about something minor or significant, the aftermath has an impact on all of us. In the Scarlet Letter these consequences lead to momentous difficulty than expected. Throughout The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dimmesdale often finds a way back to Hester, begging her to help relieve the stress that their sin has caused. Dimmesdale’s actions reveal his true self, a coward. Unlike Arthur
Sin, Guilt, and Pride Nathaniel Hawthorne presents an amazing work through The Scarlet Letter in which the topics as loneliness, the feeling of blame, revenge, and temptation are part of the Puritan society, but those are not just topics present there, those are themes existing in every time period. The Puritan society has strong religious beliefs; they are very strict and sins are strictly punished especially if they are committed by women. In this period men made all important decisions and they
Often times people are faced with situations where their decisions may leave a scar on their lives. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is a novel taking place in Boston, Massachusetts during the mid-seventeenth century that portrays a character struggling between two conflicting decisions— to confess his adultery with Hester or to suppress the truth from the public— that would affect those around him. Due to the nature of the Puritans, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale could not easily confess because
1. Public humiliation deters “inappropriate” behavior and is a suitable form of punishment; however, public humiliation should not be used during a person’s formative years. Gossip spreads like wildfire, as exemplified in chapter 2 on page 45, as five women are gossiping about the punishment of Hester Prynne: “At the very least, they should put the brand of a hot iron on Hester Prynne’s forehead.” A man that these five gossips do not know even throws in his two cents on her punishment. With Hester
Throughout The Scarlet Letter, mostly in the beginning and the middle, one can see that Hawthorne is struggling between the two ideas of Christianity and Romanticism. The characters, Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale display these two opposing qualities simultaneously. However, although Hawthorne struggled with the deadlock between Christianity and Romanticism throughout the story, he concluded the book with the victory of the Christian worldview. To begin with, Hester is mostly Romantic concerning