How Has Hester Made An Outcast

In the book, “The Scarlet Letter”,Hester is treated so badly but some people are still treated in similar ways today. Throughout the whole novel, It is showed how Hester’s past is looked down upon because she had Pearl. Hester was made an outcast, she was looked down on but another thing she did is she grew from all of this, She let all the hate make her stronger and it made her work harder, as Hester said “God gave her into my keeping, I will not give her up!”.Women today go through the same things but maybe not to this full extension. In the book, “ The scarlet Letter”, Hester was made an outcast. She was forced the wear the “A”” on all of her clothes. The scarlet letter stands for adultery and that's what everyone saw and they automatically made up an opinion about her even though the people didn't know her personally. Women today are labeled to but just in different ways. If a girl gets pregnant, she gets called names like slut, whore, ect. “Here, she said to herself, had been the scene of her guilt, and her should be the scene of her earthly punishment:”Even though girls today don't have to wear a letter on all of their
Her and Pearl would stand on the scaffold on judgement day but yet no one would stand with them. She was publicly shamed in the town, “ and so, perchance, the torture of her daily shame would at length purge her soul, and work out another purity than that which she had lost;” Women today are still shamed for what they have done. Some girls will lose their friends because all some people care about these days is popularity. Some girls are lucky to have friends that support them through this rough time in their lives. Girls will get stares wherever they go if she is far enough alone to see that she is pregnant and after they have the baby as well.Sadly time hasn't stopped people from judging but it has let people begin to understand that public shaming shouldn't be this