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The Scarlet Letter  Puritan society had a very distinctive view
of privacy. Peoples privacy, in our society, is often exploited
by the media and word of mouth. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel,
The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynnes’s private life was publicized
by an entire town. Hester becomes an infamous sinner in a town
where religion is enforced in your every-day life. Regardless of
sex, any story of adultery that surfaces becomes the spotlight
and the adulterers are ridiculed and stripped of their pride.
The Scarlet Letter focuses on the fact that a woman committed
adultery. This goes to show you that a sinful story involving a
woman always interests more than a story that involves a mans
intolerable actions. The entire town of Salem, Massachusetts
overreacts to Hesters situation. Little do the towns people know
that Hester had not seen her husband in three years and believed
she would never see him again. Humiliating herself, Hester stood
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