The Scarlet Letter: Human Beings Are Evil?

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she was being judged by everybody,
and since humans are evil, than their response towards her were not be
positive, but evil. A group of women were talking with each other, and
deciding on a punishment for Hester: "'What do we talk of marks and brands,
whether on the bodice of her gown, or flesh of her forehead,'" (p. 49).
To which another replied "'This woman has brought shame upon us all, and
ought to die'" (p. 49). It is a good thing they didn't have any political
power. This shows how full of evil these human self appointed judges are,
and they do not only judge Hester, they also judge judges' decision.
Hawthorne comments this barbarism by describing these judges: "�the ugliest
as well as the most pitiless of these self-constituted judges," (p. 49).
These evil women set themselves up themselves as moral judges in order to
make themselves look like angels, by turning Hester into a devil.
All the puritans who think that they are so pure, and judge Hester,
should ...

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