The Scarlet Letter The “6th Sense” of Sinners In the Novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the society of a Puritan town of Boston excludes anyone who is a nonconformist or is in any way deviant from their thoughts, laws, and standards. However, the townspeople themselves are not without fault. However, they try to conceal and contain their passions and all their faults due to their own fear of being excluded. All the characters …showed first 75 words of 2327 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2327 total…to cause them to turn their own passions to evil. They, in turn, become blind and untrue to themselves and lose their natural instinct and intuition. The people labeled “evil,” by society, are just those who have passions that duffer from the majorities. People who are different and pose a threat toward the society’s persona are the ones who are banished. Society is scared of change, and Hawthorne shows this clearly in his novel.