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Originally posted by Wrekla
One of the themes of Hawthorne's novel was Hester Pynne's rejection of traditional puritan beliefs about sin. To society her adulterous actions were wrong and forbidden and thus she was forced to wear the scarlet A. To Prynne, although she recognized society's belief that she was bad / a sinner, she did not let their beliefs define her as a person.
To Juliet's society, a relationship with Romeo was bad / forbidden. To reject society's beliefs and do what she wanted (be with Romeo) would cause Juliet to have her own scarlet letter in the eyes of society.
"Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter"
The line makes sense. Taylor Swift is smarter than you.
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...i don't think you read the scarlet letter either because it isn't about that, it's about coming to terms with and being honest with your sins and the fact that that will benefit you most in the end, which is kinda the opposite actually
it's not that hester doesn't let the letter define her (in fact, she actually kinda does because it's impossible not to, she's a pariah and everyone hates her because of it at least for a while, so she can't just not...), it's that her honesty and the enduring of her pain allows her to become a stronger, better person while dimmesdale's lying causes his guilt to slowly decrease his life quality
the scarlet letter isn't a tale of rebellion at all, in fact one of the very reasons the abuse begins to decrease is because she hasn't argued about the sin and accepts her punishment and the only reason hester even does anything rebellious (trying to escape the colony) is because she's protecting dimmesdale because chillingworth is pretty much killing him
juliet never becomes the target of the hatred of an entire society and she openly rebels, also juliet isn't being punished for her perceived wrongdoing, she's just trying to continue doing it. she's rebelling to get what she wants while hester is taking a punishment and not fighting it which are pretty much complete opposites actually
they aren't comparable at all and both you and her apparently completely misinterpreted it
EDIT: and judging by all of the people saying "drag it" or some variant of it in this thread, a lot of people on atrl haven't read it either or at least haven't read it and understood it