I usually read some newspapers because I'm interested in the social phenomena. Sometimes, there are some words came out called 'the Scarlet Letter'. I saw this word in the articles about the case of damaging by determining personal data, so I just thought that it means 'no good', then I read this 'The Scarlet Letter'.
The story of this book was a woman named Hesther. She loved a man who wasn't her husband, and she laid a baby. So people in the village realized that she cheated. It was a crime at that time, so she punished by holding a scarlet letter on her clothes.
During I was reading this book, I thought about the reason why the article used the word 'scarlet letter'. This book used the 'Scarlet Letter' as a mark that she cannot take off it forever, and make the main character to be sad and overcome that obstacle. The article said that a person who made a mistake get damaged by determining their personal data and personal attack. So it used the 'Scarlet Letter' to definite this phenomenon.
After I read this book, I thought about the news about the trouble between a clerk and a woman. At first, their just was the news about how the clerk did mean to the woman, so people started to attack the clerk and even they found all of clerk's personal data. However, people who were at the place and the video in the CCTV showed that the woman did mean to the clerk first. Then, people started to do same thing that they did to the clerk.
Finally I got that the person who made a mistake, became to known by all over the world, blamed by people and got a negative modifier is called 'the Scarlet Letter in 21st century'.
The Scarlet letter in the fiction was giving message to people who had wrong belief and zero-toterance, should be puntualize and forgive the person like Hesther. However, our case is different. Because in this case, the information of the victim keeps forever, and there also media made news about them.
With this contrasting, I wonder how can we apply this lesson in our lives. I think this book is great because it helped me to think about this social problem.
It's one of my the most favourite books! I just love it. But I'd like to point out that Hesther also had the permanent mark-her daughter. In my opinion, the real difference between two cases is that even though she cheated on her husband, the author described the pastor(?) as her true love and her husband as the obstcle. The author also demonstrated the fact that the guilt had never left them, and they were truely sorry for their behavior. Anyway, I wish I could read the article. Sounds interesting.
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