Hawthorne's View of Women

Hawthorne imagined it was the same in the 17th as well. One woman says, does this woman even need a physical punishment at all? She will have a baby. That's going to be the mark of her sin. And the ugliest and most pitiless of all the women just says, brand her forehead, she should be killed. His argument is interesting. He doesn't say, where's our compassion, my friends? Or who are we to judge? The scripture and the statute book says we can kill her for this. Let's do it."

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