What Does It Mean To Be Kept In The Scarlet Letter

Sometimes secrets are meant to be kept but some have many reasons not to. Secrets are kept for various things, like when it might harm someone or to protect someone else. In the Scarlet Letter, Hester refuses to give up the identity of her baby's father, thus it is causing more trouble and hate for her with the towns people. The townspeople don't understand why she keeps the baby's father a secret. Hester might be keeping the secret to save the father the trouble and maybe the community, because if he played an important role in the community things might have fallen apart. This is similar to Peter Parker in Spider-Man. He doesn't tell anyone his identity to keep his Aunt May away from harm and to protect himself. If someone where to find out they could use his Aunt to get to him. People keep secrets all the time, either because they are expected to or to protect those who it affects, but sometimes in

If that secret has the potential to keep someone out of danger or harm then it is worth telling someone. Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, revealed one of his biggest secrets he had, that he was Iron Man. He did this because there was no point in keeping. The bad people already knew it was him. Doing that it made it easier on him because he didn't have to go around and try to hide his secret identity. Hester knew the only people who where actually in any danger would be herself and her baby, so she didn't reveal her secret. She knew something would happen if she did so she found it best to keep it to herself. Hester on the other hand \knew the only people who where actually in any danger would be herself and her baby, so she didn't reveal her secret. She knew something would happen if she did so she found it best to keep it to herself. She decided to take the punishment herself instead of dragging the father into it. Although it was hard on her, would it have been easier if they shared the