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The Scarlet Letter

One of the recurring themes is the story of The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is that of identity and society. After Hester is publicly shamed and forced by the people of Boston to wear a badge of humiliation, her unwillingness to leave the town may seem puzzling. She is not physically imprisoned, and leaving the colony would allow her to remove the scarlet letter and resume a normal life elsewhere. So why does Hester choose to stay in a place were she will constantly be reminded my by her past action and “sin?”

Most of us today, let society determine our identity. We are constantly behaving or even acting in a way that we want society to perceive us. I believe the world we live in today is guided by a set of rules which society has put there for us to follow. Our actions are no longer natural or of our choice, we behave in a way which coincide with the rules of society and therefore abandoning our true identity and adopting that of society. This can be compared to a kind a “cave,” we are puppets in a cave, or actors in a play, all playing our roles, the role assigned to us by society. We see is the illusions that society and its leaders create for us, and unable to think freely we accept these illusions

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