A Modern Day Hester Prynne; "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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<Tab/>The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines shunning as "to avoid deliberately and especially habitually." This narrow definition doesn't begin to cover how those who have been shunned probably feel. To be shunned is to be completely shut out from your society, leaving you surrounded by people but still alone. Shunning was very important in Puritan society to keep people in check. If behavior deviated from what was acceptable at the time, shunning was used as a punishment to keep this behavior from happ…