Society's Pressure to conform results in Hypocracy.

Society's pressure to conform leads to hypocracy and two- sidedness. This is an issue that is very relevant to The Scarlet Letter. To start off, Hester, one of our main characters, breaks the law and is forced to wear a scarlet letter. The goal: To incorperate Hester back into the conformity in society. The result: Hester develops a diffrent veiw on the world as she is shunned from society and lives alone in the cottage in the woods. Hester becomes very two sided and hypocritical, because when she is in society, she covers her hair, and embraces the scarlet letter. She helps the poor and the sick and she appears to be so well liked by society that they even consider revoking the Scarlet Letter. But when we see hester in the woods, we see her take her hair down. We see her rebel against the ideas of society. Since society is so judgemental of opinion, we see many of our characters hiding their real opnion. Unlike the rest of the charaters, pearl, who was raised outside of soceity, is a good example of a free spirted soul, who the public think was "born from the devil, or a devil child." Dimmsdale, who is seen as the holy, pure minister is one of these characters as well. The towns people are intrigued by his sermons and speaches because they are so deep and emotional. Little so they know that Dimmsdale's inner character is one of the biggest sinners of the whole book. He knows exactly what the townspeople are going through if not worse, and he can speak with deep passion about it. We see that Dimmsdale is a coward about soceitys judgement. He wants to conform because the only time he can admit his sin is on the scaffold in the middle of the night. His scream comes out as a small whimper. There was no chance of anyone finding out. Dimmsdale dies from the guilt of his sins, and because of his job, he cannot admit. Some of my direct text references are pg. 326 where we see Hester begin to analyze the role of a women. Page 405 where hester removes the scarlet letter and lets her hair down in the Forest. Page 489 where it taalks about the whole orb of life. 475 where we see the opposite of conformity and puritain society. 407 where pearl is one with nature. 389 where hester starts talking like ann hutchinson. I need to find a couple more direct text reference to support my claims, but that is a start.