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Scarlet Letter: Who Should Punish A Sinner? Religion, Society, Or Individuals
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Scarlet Letter: Who Should Punish A Sinner? Religion, Society, or Individuals
Who should punish a sinner? Should it be religion, society, or the
individual? In Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter all three affect the main character
Hester Prynne. Religion punishes her .... Middle of Essay .... "I have thought have death," said
she, - "have wished for it, - would even have prayed for it, were it fit that
such as I should pray for anything."
Society was an influence on the scarlet letter. People of the town
believed that Hester was a witch as well as sinner. Society ostracized her
because no one in the town had ever delt with any kind of sin as adultry so they
looked at her as a witch. The people in a way wanted to ruin her life because
people actually thought she was bad. One of the real canadites that wanted to
ruin Hester was Mistress Hibbins.
Through out the whole story Mistress Hibbins constantly gives Hester her
piece of min ....
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