Scarlet Letter In Today's Society

There are many types of "scarlet letter's" in modern day life that apply to all in any given society. A type of "scarlet letter" in today's society is none other than appearance and self-presentation. Another "scarlet letter" that all people are subjected to, especially earlier in life, is popularity and recognition. One more "scarlet letter" example in modern day society is money.

Appearance and presentation has involved itself in society too much. If certain people in society don't like an appearance or a first impression on specific people, then that person usually is not spoken to or acknowledged too often. It's because too many people in modern life don't look at the inside of a human being; they look at the outside. The outside of a
When younger an in high school, popularity and recognition are too important to every student. Current day society builds every event and human being up to bigger deals than they really are especially movie actors and musicians. Movie actors are almost god-like to different people in different ways, even though half of them are snotty or self-centered. Musicians make too much money in current society when over half of the musicians don't even deserve a cent because they are horrible at making music and don't make their own music. To relate this to The Scarlet Letter is easy, because Hester is not very popular after her sins were recognized by society. But before her sins were known, she was beautiful lady that any wife was jealous of. She was recognized as a whore and her daughter was basically looked at as a bastard
Even though money is just colored paper with some print on it, it is worth more than life at times to specific people in society for some reason or another. Money today is represented by cars, clothing, and houses. Money is even used as a classification in modern life to classify one's wealth and to classify personality. Most humans that have too much money let you know it, this is not true for all, but most of the time it's the case. Money should not be used to gain another level up form one individual to another. Money in current life is much like Hester's problems she faced during the novel. Money is used to lower any given person's self-esteem mentally, because if you don't have it, you wish you had it. Hester's self-esteem was lowered verbally, mentally, and physically during the novel by name calling, getting objects thrown at her or women wanting to kill her out of jealousy. But Hester didn't let any of these bother her except the mental issues, because she had to live with her daughter Pearl and the man she cheated on supposedly, Chillingsworth. Hester pushed on with life, because she had conceived a child and was proud to raise it and wanted to guarantee her child a good