Practice Essay Question - How Hester got banned from society .. Post #39

-Hester banned from society because of sin - something that everybody did but maybe worse, maybe not, but hers got public
-People stare and mock at her, and they talk bad about Hester
-She could have gone away from the colony, but she didnt --> feeling to stay or come back to a place where you did something wrong --> learning a lot from that
-She does a lot of good things for society, helps people, creates garments for them, but they treat her in the same way, a an outcast
-Is seen as a bad thing, like a witch, trying to get her child away

Hester Prynne got banned from society because she did something,  everybody does every day. I'm sure, that nearly every person in this society has sinned at least once. But no one ever found out. The results maybe were not that obvious as the result, that Hester's sin has. A child. Even though she could have left, flee from all the shame and pain she could feel with staying in the society, she did not leave at all. She stayed in the colony, with the mark on her bosom, all the pain and memories around her. Why did she stay? Just because she did not know where to go? Maybe she wanted to stay to see what happens to her child's father. Or maybe it is just some kind of curse that keeps a person at a place where something really important happened? Indeed this one sin was important to her. It changed her whole life in both directions. It enriched it, but it also made her feel farther away from it. She was an outcast. She was not allowed to do all the things she did before. All the people stared at her bosom, when she crossed the market place, the talked badly about her, they did not treat her like a normal person anymore. Even that has a good and a bad side. She did not belong to society anymore. She was free. But on the other hand it must have been kind of hurting to have anyone treat you like something else, like a witch or a creature. And even though she tried to do good things, not everybody appreciates that. All the garments she did to the poor people, all the neatness she had against other people, the compassion, and hardly anybody treated her normal. They did not see the person in her, they only looked at the symbol on her bosom, a simple letter that turned a person into something strange, something repulsive that did not deserve to be treated equally. But every negative thing has a positive side, just as every positive side has a negative one. After everything you learn something, whether it is bad or not. When everyone is against you, it becomes easier to stand it. You do not get hurt that easily, you become colder - a part of your emotions can even die. It became easier for Hester to stand all that.  But she still kept her feelings. She created a link to her daughter, the only person, except of Dimmesdale, who did not judge her for her sin. She was the only person, who was there for her, she became Hester's life. And they tried to take her life away from her. As she was not seen as a portly person anymore, not able to care for her child, they wanted to take her daughter away, the only thing that meant something in Hester's life. But it was important that it happened the way it happened. If she just ran away from her fears, from everything, the plot never would have happened. She would not have gotten that strong, Pearl would not have raised up the way she did.