Scarlet Letter 4
How would you like to live in a time where you were to be as perfect as possible, with as little sin as possible? That is the way it was in the Puritan times. Puritans were supposedly the more pure and righteous religious group. In the Scarlet Letter and The Crucible there are many examples to show how they misrepresent the Puritan times. In the Scarlet Letter, the use of irony shows how the author thought of Puritans. Though he did not live in the Puritan time, he still had an idea that they were not as good as they said to be. He shows us this idea with a couple examples. First, while Hester is standing on the scaffolding. The townswomen are talking of Hester’s crime. The author describes one woman as “the ugliest as well as the most pitiless of these self-constituted judges.” Now, from what we know, Puritans were supposed to be judge free and here is a prime example of judging others. She says, “What do we talk of
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Approximate Word count = 623
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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