The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1760 Words

In Isaiah 30:15 it says, â€Å"This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: â€Å"In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.† Hester would have none of it. Hester never repented for committing adultery with Dimmesdale, even after Dimmesdale repented for his sins. Therefore, she never had the salvation that was offered by the Lord. The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, who is well known for his other works such as, The House of Seven Gables and, Young Goodman Brown. He was also a Romantic and an Anti-Transcendentalist. The Scarlet Letter is about a woman named Hester Prynne, who is living in Boston during the 1640’s. She is publicly shamed in front†¦show more content†¦Hester’s repentance is one of the main questions the reader is left with at the end of The Scarlet Letter. Hester never repented for her sins. Hester saw DImmesdale repent for his sins bu t, she didn’t repent for her own. Hester was never allowed the opportunity to repent for sins in the stuffy Puritan community. She also believed that moral difficulties in a situation weren’t resolved by repentance, and instead, they were resolved by moving somewhere else or by a new description of oneself. Hester is also only a human being and not God, so, therefore, she isn’t perfect. Hester was never allowed to repent for her sins in the stuffy Puritan community. (The Atlantic) The Puritans have roots going back to the 1530’s when King Henry of England split from the church of Rome and started the Church of England. (History.com) Then in 1620’s, after much persecution, many Puritans decided to sail to the New World. The most famous group is the Pilgrims that settled Plymouth in 1620. The Puritans began to migrate to the New World,being commonly made up of families. They set up small towns on the East coast of the New World, one of those towns was Boston. Boston, 1640, is where The Scarlet Letter begins. Hester is being publicly shamed in front of everyone on the scaffold in the town square with her baby, Pearl. Hester is to stand in front of the leaders of the town and