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The Scarlet Letter Essay Preview: The Scarlet Letter Report this essay The attitude towards sinners in the Puritan society of the 1600s is well portrayed in Nathanial Hawthornes, The Scarlet Letter, “At the very least, they should have put the brand of a hot iron on Hester Prynnes forehead”(Hawthorne 1360). The main character, Hester Prynne,.