The Puritan society itself was a lesson in hypocrisy. Supposedly, they were firm believers in the Bible, but the Bible advocates forgiveness and toleration. The whole society's basis was on religious...
According to Nathaniel Hawthorne ( and he can be pretty goofy sometimes), if a woman was thought to be an adultress (she fooled around with a married man) she had to wear a big red "A" on her...