You...you do know who the "bad guys" were in the Scarlet Letter, right?

mrguyorama 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

The scarlet letter didn't have "Good guys" and "Bad guys". That was sort of an important theme of the book since the priest himself was the baby daddy.

	▲	howunfortunate 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		The main message of the book is "Wearing your choices on your sleeve can be painful in a judgmental world, but is ultimately healing; attempting instead to appear spotlessly moral will tear you apart from inside out" Now apply to this thread. I mostly agree it's not as simple as good guys and bad guys, but if anyone's a bad guy it's the most judgmental townspeople and the priest who lets Hester take the full brunt of judgment while he pretends he's squeaky clean.

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sirshmooey 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Probably a better question for Elon's harem of birth-mothers

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howunfortunate 3 days ago | parent [-]

Again, I'm begging you to go look up a plot summary. Hester is the hero protagonist!

	▲	sirshmooey 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Congratulations, you've rewired the metaphor.

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qwerpy 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Hahaha. This is too good. These hateful people are so caught up in their outrage that they don’t realize they’ve become the bad guys.

	▲	iugtmkbdfil834 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It is worse. They think their hatred is somehow justified.
	▲	bothers 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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