Hawthorne and puritanism

The writer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, portrays the Puritan
society in his novel, the "The Scarlet Letter". Through out
this novel, Hawthorne shows the reader certain aspects of
his opinion of the Puritan society. Hawthorne is constantly
judging the Puritans and it's standards of morality. A
number of Puritans do not agree with Hawthorne's novel, such
as how he portrays the society's methods of punishment and
it's hypocris…