Fix my assignment on scarlet letter essay

Kiarra Sanders

1. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester finds herself in conflict with the social and moral values of society at large. Write an essay in which you explain the merits of her character and how her conflicts are essential to the overall meaning of the novel.

Introduction– do not label the sections of an essay.

The Scarlet Letter(book title must be underlined or in italics) is a romantic fiction work set in 1850s. In the Scarlet Letter Hester finds herself in conflict with the society’s norms and expectation. The book covers the theme of sin, legality and guilt. The character of Hester in this book is what the society does not expect from its women. Hester found herself punished by the society for going against the social and moral values. Most societies in the traditional setups and even in this modern time cannot allow the adulterous ways of getting children(this is unclear. What is getting children? From where?) (Newberry, Frederick. 1–26)

In the Scarlet Letter, Hester engaged in unwanted sexual behaviors with men. ( I think it was only one) This ended up with the conception of a daughter. The society was at the time hard on the women that born bore children out of wedlock. Hester found it to live in the society with such restriction. (this is unclear. What is it?)This made her to be a victim of adulterous behavior. Her character is admirable since she is remorseful of the wrongdoing and she accepts it as a since. (what does this mean?)She is also ready to stand the shame in the public and accepts to be guilty of the adulterous behavior.

A crowd of people gathered when the day of her punishment arrived. Hester was punished in the public for adultery. She was made to wear a scarlet “A” a sign of adultery and shame during those times. The whole crowd watches her with the scarlet and with shame for hoursPoorly worded. The whole crowd watchers her for hours with her shame and scarlet letter. . She is force to name the father of the child but she was hard to name him. (this is confusing. What do you mean she was hard to name him? ) As Hester looks into the crowd, she notices her long-lost husband who has been presume lost in the sea. Many could not have stood the shame (comma) but Hester had strong character and thus she stands and accepts correction. (period at the end of sentence) She accepted her punishment not correction.

The husband to Hester walked to the front of the crowd and demanded to know the father of the child. Even though, the husband who chooses to be name Roger Chillingworth was ready to forgive her. He too had wronged her by moving in with another woman without her(whose consent? Hester or the other woman) consent. Hester was also remorseful for the adulterous behaving behaviorthe she displayed to the -society which whois much against it.

Hester accepts to be being guilty of the undesired behavior of adultery and she is ready to move in with his husband. (this is confusing. Whose is “his husband”?) He seeks forgiveness from the crowd that witnessed her being shamed. It is through these actions that it teaches that what is wrong in the eyes of the society need acceptance and feel of remorse about it. This makes no sense. Her husband is ready to forgive her (comma) and she is also ready to forgive her husband for abandoning her.

The role of the character of Hester and her conflicts in the novel is overall.(this makes no sense. How can something be overall? Overall what?)This is because it showed how the women in the society can be pressed on hard by the society’s norms and cultures. This is as compared to men like his long-lost husband.(Again, the “his husband” is confusing. He is not punished for leaving his wife and moving in with another woman. This clearly illustrates how the societies discriminate based on gender. The social and moral values need to be upheld by both genders.

(Ryskamp, Charles.72-257)

Conclusion-

In conclusion, The Scarlet Letter is a novel that shows the role of society’s norms in correcting the undesired behaviors among its people.(Are you stating society corrects its norms? That makes no sense) Hester is a representative or an example of how the society’s convention can go far to punish those who go against it. It is in the novel that the clear journey of forgiveness of the wrong done doingis also portrayed by Hester when she seek forgiveness from his husband. (This is the 3rd place in this essay that you referred to Hester as his husband. Hester was his wife) The merits of the strong character of Hester are also evident in the novel. The themes of legality, sin and guilty is clearly illustrated in the novel.

References

Newberry, Frederick. Tradition and Disinheritance in the Scarlet Letter" ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 23 1977, print

Ryskamp, Charles. "The New England Sources of the Scarlet Letter"American Literature 31, 1959.. Print

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