The act of Shunning is viewed in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter when the protagonist Hester Prynne commits adultery in the puritan society. ... This can be directly linked to how Hester was treated for what she did in puritan society in The Scarlet Letter. ... Dimmesdale was shunned by all of Puritan society in the Massachusetts Bay colony. she was forced to stand on a scaffold in front of the townspeople for three hours wearing an embroided Scarlet letter "A" which stood for "Adultery" at that point in the novel. ... In comparison to Ray rice, a football player who was well li...

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