Sunday, October 12, 2014

The Hyposcrisy of Society

In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the townspeople are hypocrites. They claimed to be Puritans and Puritans aren't supposed to judge people,clearly they are judging Hester because of the one sin she did. In the English Standard Version of the bible it states, "Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned..." (Luke 6:37); do the townspeople not know that since they are judging Hester and condemning her to wear a scarlet letter on her chest that are condemning their souls to hell? They ultimate goal of the Puritan society is to create a city upon a hill in which everything is perfect and that their Utopia is a model society, but how is their society perfect if judge one person based off one sin? It is my belief that the townspeople of Boston decided to publicly shame Hester for her sin in order to get their mind off their own sins. Every person is born a sinner based off the original sin of Adam and Eve (ESV. Genesis 8:21) and I think it is because of this knowledge that the townspeople decide to humiliate Hester. I feel that since Hester had to wear a symbol of her sin, then every single person in that colony should have to wear one too! Every person in that town has sinned and they are all hypocrites for making Hester's sin public, but keeping their sins private. If you ask me, the townspeople of Boston need to be saved from each other. They should accept each other for who they are, sins and all. If they are truly Puritans, then they would know this already.

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  1. Hey guys! So the words that are in red are links because it didn't show which words were links when I published my post. So if you click on those words then you should be taken to YouTube. Thanks!

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