In the novel, Hester Prynne is being excluding from the society: people only remember her as a sinner who against the scripture, yet ignoring the kindness she does. In the article, “Individualism of Hester Prynne in the Seventeenth Century Puritan Society: The Scarlet Letter”, Ms. Mursalin Jahan describes in puritain society, “ Women are regulated as dependent upon men, and they were tempted to evils[…] female population was “oppressed, damned, condemned” and are dominated by males in all the aspects of their lives” (Jahan 103). Where in the novel, Hawthorne associates Puritanism with superstition, excessive moralism, intolerance, and patriarchal operation. What Hester doing is against the society, but not against Puritanism throughly. Therefore her individualism is an unique or heterogeneous exist among others.