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Essay Galaxy - The Scarlet Letter: Ways People Are Punished
The Scarlet Letter: Ways People Are Punished
Many criminals today serve their time in prison and are then set free.
Most of them go on to commit other crimes, without learning the lesson
their punishment was meant to teach. the worst punishment possible is
torture and to live with ones own guilt.
In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is punished by having to stnd on
a scaffold for three hours and having to wear a scarlet letter on her
breast. After a while she feels no guilt and goes on about her life.
People in the community forget about it too. Roger Chillingsworth asks,
"Is Hester Prynne the less miserable, think you, for that scarlet letter on
her breast?" (Hawthorne 132). Dimmesdale on the other hand, has to live
with his guilt. He is mentally troubl....
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