Who is the Modern Day Puritan? Is there one? Well, while reading the scarlet letter I couldn't help thinking about my favorite movie "Easy A". That movie just shows how WE are the Modern Day Puritan, we judge people just as harshly as the town judged Hester. We might think as we read the book "How can these people behave this way?" But come on! I bet if one of us walked around with a scarlet A on our chest, people would react the same way they did years ago.
I actually hoped I could find someone else to portray as the Modern Day Puritan, but everyone around the world, will behave the way the townspeople behaved when they found out about Hester. I know it is bad but even when I get the news about someone being pregnant without being married, deep down I have that feeling of disappointment. We all judge people harshly, maybe not always for the same reasons the Puritans judged back then but we do form our little cliques and whoever steps a little out of line are looked down upon, "bullied" as we call it today.
For those of you thinking "Oh no! We are not like that!", if you say that you are being hypocritical- we have all felt that way although maybe we fake liking the person and offer our support but deep down we are all the same judgmental, malevolent people.
I really like how you wrote this, it is very agreeable that many of us are quick to judge, whether we admit it or not. Our judgement has been clouded by what society deems to be "wrong" or "right", and regardless of whether someone is wearing a physical "scarlet letter" or not, people tend to react in a harsh way, often judging the person.
ReplyDeleteI think that your blog makes a great point and our society today is very hypocritical. We think of the way the puritans lived as something wrong but we still judge ppl just as cruelly as they did without noticing it.
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