Original Sin Symbolism In The Scarlet Letter
“Original sin”: is the Puritan belief that all sin developed from women due to the fact that Eve, the first woman, made the first sin by giving in to temptation and offering it to men. This sin made the belief that all children created are a sinner and should take responsibility for the act of Adam and Eve. In the book, The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne uses imagery, symbolism, and the belief in “original sin” to criticize how women are not seen as equals to men.
The Imagery in The Scarlet Letter portrays what a strong character Hester had to be and what he had to go through to be able to withstand herself. Her own daughter, she had to withstand from the community and her loved ones that she felt betrayed by. There’s imagery in the way she explains the custom house and how she sees it and the people that she knows that are around there, she explains the smell surrounding her as she's walking around town and how everything is and how it affects her. It's like if she's distant, in another world, but she's actually just looking …show more content…
Hawthorne proves that men believed that women did all wrong and that they were the only ones who could do wrong and that even if the men sinned, their god would forgive them since they are not women and do not give into seduction, but is offered temptation throughout the book which is the Puritan belief that all women are sinners and that men are here to redeem them and make them better people and keep them elsewhere from people like Hester who might influence their behavior and reject gender roles and refuse suppressing anymore and to come up and be better than what men think women are. Men suppressed them and women allowed it until the scarlet letter came along and demonstrates what the letter “A” truly meant. “The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not
The Imagery in The Scarlet Letter portrays what a strong character Hester had to be and what he had to go through to be able to withstand herself. Her own daughter, she had to withstand from the community and her loved ones that she felt betrayed by. There’s imagery in the way she explains the custom house and how she sees it and the people that she knows that are around there, she explains the smell surrounding her as she's walking around town and how everything is and how it affects her. It's like if she's distant, in another world, but she's actually just looking …show more content…
Hawthorne proves that men believed that women did all wrong and that they were the only ones who could do wrong and that even if the men sinned, their god would forgive them since they are not women and do not give into seduction, but is offered temptation throughout the book which is the Puritan belief that all women are sinners and that men are here to redeem them and make them better people and keep them elsewhere from people like Hester who might influence their behavior and reject gender roles and refuse suppressing anymore and to come up and be better than what men think women are. Men suppressed them and women allowed it until the scarlet letter came along and demonstrates what the letter “A” truly meant. “The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not