A couple of weeks ago, I read the book The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was definitely tedious but somewhat interesting. For those who don't know, the story surrounds a young woman who is forced to wear a bright "A" on her dress for the rest of her life for having committed adultery and for bearing someone else's child. She also refuses to give up the name of her partner in crime.
She raises her child in silence and her husband comes back just in time to see her being ridiculed by the town. The reader quickly learns that she never loved her husband but was forced to marry him out of necessity. To make this long story short, she and her lover plan to run away together after 7 years of silence but her lover dies of a broken heart.
Now I'm watching The Crucible. Here it is people are being crucified just for being suspected of being a witch. And this actually happened. First it was women, then children being included and finally, they started burning men at the stake as well... all for suspected witchcraft. And here it is... none of these things truly exists.
What's worse is that these practices go further back than our biblical history. Absolutely disgusting. And really, what makes this worse than what is going on now? People being killed for their religious practices? People who are crucified because of their sexuality... political stances... I mean, should I go on?
And it seems no matter how hard we try to change, ignorance remains prominent and people will continue to hold themselves "higher than thou." The world will end this way. It's disgusting.
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