Blackbeard in my eyes is the toughest man known on the sea. He had class and no mercy with anything he did. He came from the military later to find out he was fit for the sea and joined into the piracy. He became the most well known scandal during the eighteenth century. He sailed the North American and Caribbean. Blackbeard was a man of the water, although he made some very bad decisions, like Hester did in the Scarlet Letter: they both worked on their faults to make themselves looked at as better people.
People today don’t know or know very little about Blackbeard. Now that technology is increasing, and the age of Blackbeard and other history is becoming older and older. People are forgetting or just not wanting to learn about older history. People don’t know that his original name was found to be Edward Teach, also it took five shots from a pistol and more than twenty stabs for him to die (Ullian par.15).
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He was originally an English soldier who served in the Queen Anne’s War during 1701 - 1714 (Lawrence par.1). He later turned to piracy after the war (Lawrence par.1). His scandalous life began working for Benjamin Hornigold. Later after Hornigold retired, Edward Teach took the name Blackbeard and ran his own ship: he sailed across the sea fighting in a duel war against the British ship ran by HMS Scarborough (Ullian par.3).
Blackbeard like Hester had a symbol of who they both were and how they were looked at. Hester had the Scarlet Letter to symbolize what she stood for and what her actions were by committee. Blackbeard’s pirate flag gave his symbol that was a skeleton holding a dagger drawing blood. It meant that if you did not surrender to Blackbeard and his men. You would die (Alchin flag.4). They both were marked with a stereo type, but throughout the Scarlet Letter Hester changed what her symbol meant. Blackbeard lived by his flag and embraced his