Human Society Problems in Nathaniel Hawthrone´s The...

Humans are social animals by nature.This is good, because collaboration is a necessity for advancement. But sometimes, this tendency works against it in the worst of ways, which three works, The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Crucible, A play written by Arthur Miller , and the movie Klass (The Class), directed by Ilmar Raag, all use to display the problems within human society. All 3 works emphasize the human tendency to â€Å"gang up† to avoid being singled out. The connecting theme between these works is that humans group up to avoid being singled out, and will do almost anything to stay in the group. In The Scarlet Letter, the narrator says â€Å"â€Å"Lastly, the inhabitants of the town (their own interest in this worn-out subject languidly reviving itself, by sympathy with what they saw others feel)(ch 22). The author is putting on display how people will change based on what the people around them are doing to not look different. All these new people come to town, and they all stare at the scarlet letter because they have only heard rumors/legends about it. This seems normal, but people who have lived around it every day for several years suddenly discover their curiosity and do the same, solely based on the reaction of the visitors. They just want to belong to the group, and that is what the group is doing, even at the cost of Hesters dignity. They had accepted Hester as much as they would, and that meant leaving her alone for the mo st part. Yet they changed