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…have to recompense for their wrong actions. The Mariner’s punishment for betraying nature by shooting the Albatross is his intense agony and misery. The Mariner admits his fault and accepts his penalty; hence he survives with the burden of telling a story…

…not possible by her husband since he had been missing for two years. The term adulteress is placed down on her as a punishment for going against the puritan ways and having intercourse with a man other than her husband. The “A” is supposed to be used, as a form…

…. People did not like her for that so they banished her. Hester Prynne commits adultery, but she handles it differently than Anne. She does not believe with all her heart that it was the right thing to do, so she is not punished as severely as Anne was. Hester…

…The Civil War began in early 1861 after South Carolina seceded from the Union and lasted until 1865. Reconstruction began as soon as the war ended but was a slow and strenuous process. The North was faced with the dilemma of whether or not to punish…

…(“Infoplease.com”). Although this may seem like a pretty worthy punishment, it was no punishment at all. Other Americans were fighting for their country and not given this luxury/opportunity of spending five years in jail. Men were dying in Vietnam, while Ali…

…with one of the men in the village but the child's father's identity is a mystery to every person in the town except for Hester and the man. As punishment for her sins Hester is ordered to wear a single letter, in scarlet, on the front of her dress. The letter…

…. “He bullied and punished me: not two or three times in the week, nor once or twice in the day, but continually: every nerve I had feared him …” (p.10) Up until Jane’s fight with John, she was expected to remain silent until she could “speak pleasantly,” she…

…. When this occurs, the injured party has the right to punish the transgressor. There would be no reason for men to leave the state of nature and to form societies, except that difficulties arise in applying punishment to those who transgress the law…

…means they were heroes because they killed evil people who destroyed society. And a hero should deserved punishment bravery. Otherwise they are murderers. Unfortunately, Billy the Kid was a murder, not a hero. The first example of Billy the Kid…

…that there was no external punishment for Arthur, he creates it within himself. He still received his penalty, an internal punishment. "A well hidden secret, looking pure as a new fallen snow, while their heart is spotted with inequity of which they cannot rid themselves…