Essay About Hester Prynne And Towns People

Scarlet Letter
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The Scarlet Letter was timed framed in 17th century Puritan Salem in Massachusetts in the year 1666. Hester Prynne (Demi Moore) was a widow when moving to the Bay Colony because her Husband Roger Chillingsworth (Robert Duvall) was reported dead by the Indians. Hester takes everything well she uses the money her husband left her to buy and fix up her own house. She also purchases slaves and goes to the market on her own. During these times it was known for a woman to be accompanied by a Husband or a Man when purchasing slaves or a house. It was uncommon for a woman to be independent in the 17th century. The towns people seem to not like Hester because she interacts with everyone freely and wears revealing laced garment. They feel that she has no morals of how a role of a woman is supposed to be acted on. Hester Prynne then meets the new Reverend named Arthur Dimmesdale (Gary Oldman) and they hit it off pretty good. Their infatuation for each other becomes greater and they started to have an affair. Hester Then becomes pregnant from the Reverend and the whole town finds out. Hester is then forced to wear a Scarlet Letter A upon her bosom for committing adultery so that she can be known to everyone as an adulterer. Hester conceives a daughter by the Reverend named Pearl. Then one day unexpected Hester Husband Roger returns from imprisonment with the Indians and things start to unravel. Hester did a very good job of keeping who the father of Pearl is because she does not wish to ruin the Reverends reputation. If the towns people found out that their own Reverend was the father of Hesters baby he could be forever damned and possibly killed for his sin. The day Hester Prynne first wore her ignominious badge, had begun a course of penance, which the Reverend follows out, by inflicting a torture on himself for the sin and for allowing Hester to take the punishment solemnly when he was just as guilty. Roger, Hester Husband was furious to hear about Hesters affair. Roger was determined to figure out who impregnated his wife. Roger uses the methods of Witchery and poisonous drugs to determine Hesters Lover to the point of no remorse. Arthur Dimmesdale seemed to be deteriorating from the inside out because of his guilt. Its taking over his life and it gives the incentive to the towns people something is not right.