Adultery in the Scarlet Letter

In compound Puritan c entirelyer adultery was looked upon as one of the shoot sins a person could commit. If a char was found to leave a child forth of wed-lock, a life dear of shunning and dishonour would await her. The reddened letter shows the substantial role societys place has on a person. Society brings foots of apparitional privilege for holy officials, disadvantages of macrocosm a woman, and the shame hardened on sinners.\nThe Scarlet Letter begins immediately with the theme of sinners shame thrust upon Hester. The opening scope shows Hester and child coming out of jail only to be publicly ridiculed for the adultery Hester has act. Her penalization for her sin is public shaming where she mustiness literally sit and be insulted in the middle of the metropolis square. Hesters place in society leave n of all time be the same now that she is a social outcast. Her sin will forever be delineated not only in the red A she must wear, but also in Pearl who is an embodiment of her adultery. today that Hester is a known adulterer, no man will ever approach her for the rest of her life. To all men in Boston, she is looked upon as an unclean woman.\nAnother theme prevalent throughout The Scarlet Letter is a especial(a) privilege for Religious officials. Although the lecturer knows of Dimmesdales sin he has committed with Hester, he will never be suspected by the people because of his holy status. Dimmesdale more or less seems to represent all that is dear in the world, while Hester embodies everything wrong. Hawthorne uses these contradictory messages of character to represent the discrimination of Puritan society. To the rest of society, Dimmesdale is a father figure to their doctrine lives, while he on the Q.T. has a struggle with the iniquity of his own sins.\nThe last and roughly obvious theme shown in The Scarlet Letter is the foul disadvantages Hester faces for being a woman. In the 1800s there was not the gracious rights prog ress yet for woman that we have in todays society. Because of these...