Taisha Pacheco
9/14/2015
Mrs. Bauman
AP Lit
Block F
It’s almost beyond belief that this woman would stay in a place where she’s in conflict with shame. The circumstance of her sentence didn’t make her stay in the Puritan settlement. The woman can go back to wear she was born. The woman can hide anywhere else and change who she is. The woman could have simply hid in the forest with the Indians so she can run away from being doomed laws at the Puritan’s society. Destiny is in our life because it reminds society where their predicaments happened. Traumatic events tend to hold people back like chains. Hester’s sin and disgrace rooted her in that soil. Pearl made Hester think of New England into her permanent home. Every place was unfamiliar to her. The chain that destined her to this place was made of iron, and though it bothered her soul, it could not be broken.
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She hid the secret. A man lived there. She felt connection and she believes that somehow, or sometime at death, they will be together. The place of the final decision would be when Hester is at the altar marrying the man. The Devil would find advise her secret pleasures and then laughed at her when Hester would try to listen to the advice. Hester tried to ignore the advice from the Devil. Hester hardly noticed thought before she abolished the thought. She made herself think that the explanation of her staying in New England is half truth and half illusion. Her half illusion- half truth explanation was that she thinks that because her sin was committed in New England, her penalization should be in New England. Maybe the torture of her daily disgrace of her punishment would absolve her sins and make her pure. This purity will be reinstated with a sense of more saint-like purity rather than purity than that which she had lost due to her being a