Many criminals today serve their time in
prison and are then set free. Most of
them go on to commit other crimes, without learning the lesson their punishment
was meant to teach. the worst punishment
possible is torture and to live with ones own guilt.
In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is
punished by having to stnd on a scaffold
for three hours and having to wear a scarlet letter on her breast. After a while she feels no guilt and goes on
about her life. People in the community
forget about it too. Roger
Chillingsworth asks, "Is Hester Prynne the less miserable, think you, for
that scarlet letter on her breast?" (Hawthorne 132). Dimmesdale on the other hand, has to live
with his guilt. He is mentally troubled
and his guilt lasts the rest of his life.
People today have no fear about what might
happen to them if they commit a crime.
They serve their time and jail and are then set free. That is why there is so much crime where we
live. For example many people in the
mafia are caught and go to jail. Most of
them do not go for their full life but for a couple of years. When they do get out of prison they are still
in the mafia. The only thing they learn
from being in prison is to cover their tracks up better. People should pay for what they do and be
punished properly. For example, if a man
rapes a woman he should be castrated.
This way people would have fear and not commit crimes.
Torture is also a better punishment rather
then death. When a person dies they
don't pay for what they have done, they simply die. When they live with pain, they pay for
it. For example, a person whose havds
were cut off for stealing something would suffer much more that a person who
was quickly killed. The only upside of
being sent to prison is that people are tortured there. Many of the men who are sent there are raped
by other men. The recent movie Dead Man
Walking, was a true story about a man that was given the death penalty fro
raping a girl and killing both her and her boyfriend. He should not have been killed but instead
tortured. He could not take his guilt
that later he confessed in tears.
There are many ways a person can be
punished. The way our society punishes
criminals today is not effective. We
need to change out ways of punishment to more fearful ways that actually teach
criminals what they are doing wrong. The
best way to punish a person is torture and to let them live with there own
guilt.
works cited.
Hawthorne,
Nathaniel. THE SCARLETT LETTER. Penguin Books Canada Limited: Markham Ontario.
1959
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