Perception vs Reality

She as a married wo composition who has bring pregnant the altogether complication is the at her husband has non returned to capital of Massachusetts. The puritan society beli eves that engaging in intimate relations with hotshot who is non married to them is a hellhole. Hester has to stand on a scaffold for 7 real hours and permanently wear a scarlet letter A as punishment. When she head start walks out of prison, some of the older townsfolks women shout saying she should be branded, or level off execute De (34). Hester has accepted her punishment as presumption by their government and church yet reject De it.She believed that what she has done was non a sin due to its loving nature and its source, t e true love of her heart (55). later on the passing of time, the connections opinion of Hester behind changes. The town begins to think of Hester more than of a human, and less of a existing sermon toward s Chapter 13 Another View of Hester. They realize that her grim e of her sin, the scarlet let ere, is not showing Hotel 3 that she was an adulterer still that she is able (108). They notice all in all of her char itty work that she has done without universe asked.She does all of the dirty, disgusting, dishonors blew jobs that no one else wants to do because she feels as if someone should do it. Hester, though accepting the enmeshment, believes it is wrong because it was justified. The reality is that eve en though she sinned in Gods eye, she did it from true love, and it inevitably happened thro ugh human nature. Hester was not alone as the one who sinned, and his identity is revealed slow y in the middle of the novel, and set up greatly by chapter 12. Ironically, Hester fellow sinner is the towns around prominent Reverend, pass through rend Timescale. Until his final sermon, in which he reveals that he is the father 0 f Pearl, no one except Hester and Chlorinating knew of his hidden guilt. The entire town Para seed and admired Timescale. At any sermon in which he says that he is the closely sinful man, t hey do not question him. The people look at him with pure awe and mental picture that he is the greatest because he admits that he too can sin because he is human. The entire settlement of Boston bell eve that Timescale was the most righteous man they have ever met, and he was the IR sole(prenominal) stake Of salvation so they can go to heaven if predestined.Through Dams goblinlys eve rigidifies facade, you can find the truth in which he hides. Timescale is not the intelligence bound man everyone believes he is, he is the one who helped create the scalded elf child, Pearl. Timescale also shows his true cowardice in Chapter 1 2 The Ministers Vigil. When osseous tissue asks Timescale, Wilt thou stand here with mother and me, tomorrow noonday? , Timescale responds with, Not so, my child. Shall, indeed, stand with thy mother and thee one other day, but not tomorrow At the great judgment day , (102).Pear I did n ot admire his response, believing that he IS embarrassed to be seen with them. With Pee earl inquisitive him Hotel 4 so, Timescale shows his true fear of confessing his sin to the world in pitch to receive forgiveness from God. He shows his true hypocritical character, saying how p people should always confess their sins yet does not do so when he has sinned. Timescale is not the only individual that the people think is instrumental and overall outstanding, yet is very c introductory of popular belief. umteen of Bosons citizens failed to see the corruption in Roger Chlorinating w hen he first came about to Boston.Chlorinating came off as a complete stranger to nearly everyone in the town, so many suspicions were not designated towards him. Roger was the e first man with medical experience which has come into Boston, and the citizens took advent age of the opportunity. The village welcomed Chlorinating with free-spoken arms and treated him as if he was already apart(predicate) of the community. After a few years, Timescale becomes ill. T he entire town trusts Chlorinating so much that they ask him to watch over their beloved re veered, Timescale (80).Everyone feels ran_ACH more secure when Chi lingeringly become mess the spiritual charter for Timescale, in hopes that Chlorinating will cure his pains and help him reestablish himself as a healthy man he once was. Soon afterwards, the community becomes eerie of Chlorinating due to his p hysterical change. He looks more like an evil man, with long fingers, relating him to the Black Man, grew to be a widely subdued opinion that the Reverend Arthur Timescale, ,was haunted either by Satan himself or Satins emissary, in the guise of old Roger Chilling Roth. (85). There is only one person who truly knows Chlorinating for what he really is, a ND thats his married woman, Hester Prone. Hester is the only person who knows Rogers true identity y as untold by him to anyone Roger Prone. Roger gives a false name from the start so the people of Boston Hotel 5 will not look at him differently because his wife sinned and had intimate relate ions with another man. While everyone assumes that Roger is indeed helping the Reverend, he I s truly torturing him.Roger tells Hester, Even if imagine a scheme of vengeance, what could do better for my object than to let thee live,than to give thee medicines against all harm and p aril of life,so that this burning shame may still consume upon thy bosom? (49). Chlorinating does not care about the well universe as the colony believes. The thing he wants to do is slowly tear apart Damselflys soul layer by layer as if he was sloughing the pages off of a book. Adults are not the only ones susceptible to being judged by society. Sometimes the most innocent beings, are looked upon as the most corrupt.Society often judges individuals before they even have a chance to defend the messes. Sometimes, society judges an individual before they can even walk. In The Sac r ole Letter, the society instantly judged Hester daughter, pearl, soon after she was born. The e town kids would throw mud at Hester and Pearl anytime they axiom them, and none of them WA need to play with Pearl because she would attack them when they peril either her mother r or herself (60). Even the towns highly appraised leading disregard Pearl as hardly another huh an being (74).