Essay Archive - Scarlet Letter: Who Should Punish A Sinner? Religion, Society, or Individuals
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 with the Scarlet Letter, society
ostracizes her as punishment, and individually she was able to move on in life
but still returned to her haunting past where she died.
Religion plays a big part in the Scarlet Letter. Hester Prynne wore the
Scarlet Letter to remind her of the mi....
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