Scarlet Letter Deviant

Even in today’s society they are still forms of ostracism and shunning due to undesirable actions of certain people. Much like in the Scarlet Letter as Hester is branded an outcast due to having a baby out of wedlock and out her current marriage to someone who could technically be dead. Similar to Hester, teen moms today face a similar form of ostracism due to have babies at such a young age and almost always out of wedlock. Of course, there will be snickering and gossip from the students around the ¨child who had a child¨, but many fail to realize that these people are being heavily judged by their teachers and other adults as well. It appears from the dawn of time people have seen it necessary to judge and brand people based on their actions
Whereas in modern times we use massive amount of propaganda to show the horrors of having a teen pregnancy, and use the faces of actual teens to show the true misery of the situation rather than supporting them. Essentially branding them as twits and saying, ¨Do you really want to live like this idiot and ruin your life?¨. The same was done within the Scarlet letter with forcing Hester to wear the scarlet letter and make her crime against God known to all within the community, and set her as an example of who not to associate with or be
As soon as you have a baby as a young teen you instantaneously become judged and shunned. A young girl in Oregon pretended to be pregnant as an experiment, and found that she was not only judged by random strangers within her school but also her friends. As well, some schools have policies which say teen pregnancy is immediate grounds for expelling from the university in order to keep the policy of abstinence adhered. These kind of attitudes are very similar to the Puritans, as when Hester had her child she was immediately branded a whore and almost completely shunned by the Massachusetts Bay Colony; however, she did receive some contact with others due to her superior abilities with