Hester Prynne Discrimination In Scarlet Letter

Many people often feel the pangs of discrimination because of differences in skin color, gender, or social status, causing those people to be alienated from society. In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne is isolated from society for adultery and cheating on her unseen husband. Although she is greatly burdened by her sin, her punishment illustrates how judgemental society can be to people to who break the social norms.
Although Hester Prynne has to live everyday with a constant reminder of her sins―the letter A and her daughter Pearl―the Puritan society continues to punish Hester Prynne. Many of the women do not think her punishment is severe enough and believe Hester“ought to die.” The women in this religious