The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1142 Words

As far as I am concerned, the society of the 1850 was very religious; many people of that period were believers. Thus, there were many issues happened that influenced Nathaniel Hawthorne’s writing style. In that society, the religions was strict, the people were judgmental. The situation was different, thus people’s mind was also thinking in different ways. The first way is that there was religion belief in 1850’s society; most of the people were believers of Christianity. Thus, they will think in a way that base on the Bible. People were very religious and stricter than others who don’t have religion belief; they think Jesus was died for our sins, so they shouldn’t make more sins in our life. When someone did a mistake, people would†¦show more content†¦M stood for manslaughter, T for thief, R for rogue or vagabond, F for forgery. In Maryland and Virginia a hog stealer was pilloried and had his ears cropped. For a second offense he paid tr eble damages and was burned with the letter H on his forehead. Double punishment if the hog stealer was a slave. The third offense brought death†. It is shows that in 1850’s society, how people strict and religious were. Everyone has to obey the Bible’s words, no one could against it. The situation was like if you did some mistakes, it was hard to clean your sins and hard for the people to change the judgment on you. Like I just talked about, people were religious. They liked to do everything that followed the Bible, so people were more judgmental. If someone did something bad or something that didn’t follow the Bible’s words, they would judge on them and made them get in a real big trouble. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, the townspeople were always like to gossip about Hester that what did she do. They were judgmental, once you did something wrong, it was really hard to change people’s mind that how they think of you. Pearl’s natura l