Perception vs Reality

She as a wed womilitary personnel who has become pregnant the and complication is the at her husband has not returned to Boston. The Puritan hostel believes that engaging in intimate relations with one who is not married to them is a boob. Hester has to stand on a scaffold for seven real hours and permanently wear a ruby permitter A as punishment. W hen she first walks out of prison, some of the older towns women shout saying she should be branded, or even bleed De (34). Hester has accepted her punishment as given by their government and church still reject De it.She believed that what she has do was not a sin due to its loving nature and its source, t e true erotic love of her heart (55). aft(prenominal) the passing of time, the communitys perspicacity of Hester slowly changes. The town begins to think of Hester more of a human, and slight of a living sermon toward s Chapter 13 Another View of Hester. They realize that her stigma of her sin, the scarlet let ere, is not showing Hotel 3 that she was an adulterer but that she is able (108). They notice all of her melanise itty work that she has done without being 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 inescapably happened thro ugh human nature. Hester was not alone as the one who sinned, and his identity is revealed slow y in the halfway of the novel, and established greatly by chapter 12. Ironically, Hester fellow sinner is the towns about prominent Reverend, Reeve rend Timescale. Until his utmost sermon, in which he reveals that he is the father 0 f Pearl, no one except Hester and Chlorinating knew of his clandestine guilt. The entire town Para seed and admired Timescale. At any sermon in which he says that he is the most sinful man, t hey do not question him. The people look at him with pure awe and feeling 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 pull in ever met, and he was the IR only chance Of salvation so they can go to nirvana if predestined.Through Damselflys eve rigidifies facade, you can find the truth in which he hides. Timescale is not the Bible 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 pearl asks Timescale, Wilt thou stand here with mother and me, tomorrow noontide? , Timescale responds with, non so, my child. Shall, indeed, stand with thy mother and thee one other day, but not tomorrow At the great ruling day , (102).Pear I did not admire his response, believing that he IS embarrassed to be seen with them. With Pe e earl skeptical him Hotel 4 so, Timescale shows his true fear of confessing his sin to the world in order 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 helpful and overall outstanding, yet is very c introductory of popular belief. Many 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 almost 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 coming age of the opportunity. The village welcomed Chlorinating with open arms and treated him as if he was already apart of the community. After a few years, Timescale becomes ill. T he entire town trusts Chlorinating so much that they as k him to hold back over their beloved re veered, Timescale (80).Everyone feels ran_ACH more secure when Chi lingeringly become mess the spectral guide for Timescale, in hopes that Chlorinating will cure his pains and help him reestablish himself as a honorable 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 diffused opinion that the Reverend Arthur Timescale, ,was haunted all by Satan himself or Satins emissary, in the guise of old Roger cooling Roth. (85). There is only one person who truly knows Chlorinating for what he really is, a ND thats his wife, 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 puddle from the start so the people of Boston Hotel 5 will not look at him otherwise 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 blaze upon thy eye? (49). Chlorinating does not care about the well being as the colony believes. The thing he wants to do is slowly tear apart Damselflys soul layer by layer as if he was pare 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 scoop role Letter, the society instantly judged Hester daughter, pearl, soon after she was born. The e town kids would throw mud at Hester a nd Pearl anytime they saw them, and none of them WA need to play with Pearl because she would attack them when they threatened either her mother r or herself (60). Even the towns highly appraised leaders disregard Pearl as only another huh an being (74).