What would be the punishment for a Puritan man who committed adultery?

Question

I am reading the Scarlet Letter and I need to find out a man's punishment... thanks!

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Puritan Punishments

Answer 3

For punishment, it's not as harsh nowadays as it was during the puritan days, as many things back then were punishable by death, especially witchcraft, and often times people back then believed that adultury and witchcraft could go hand in hand, because both were against what was written in the bible. As for how she would be viewed in the community, that's complicated. Although I don't think people are any less harsh on adulturers now, as in, in their deepest thoughts, I think people nowadays would ultimately agree that it's not RIGHT to commit adultury, but it's so much more common nowadays that it's sadly become not too big of a deal. If she had a child, I would think that the husband would divorse her, and if the man she had an affair with was worth anything he'd marry her if she did have a divorse. In comparison to the Scarlet Letter, it was complicated because the characters were also mixed up in witchcraft, although most of the characters who were executed were innocent, but I think that the views of adultury has changed somewhat since then, because people don't outwardly make such a big deal, while back then, like witchcraft, because the Puritans were such a strict sector of christianity, it was a much bigger deal to commit adultury.

Answer 4

Adultery was punished variously with whipping, public humiliation, and, in principle, death. The death sentence was imposed only once: Mary Latham and James Brittaine were both put to death.

Both men and women adulterers were treated the same, and in early cases the records ascribe the first capital law against adultery to increasing pressures on conservative social values in the late 1640s.

In fact, the death penalty was first enacted in 1631: "if any man shall have carnall copulation with another mans wife they both shall be punished by death" (12/18/31 Court of Assistants), a law that was later confirmed by the General Court (10/7/40 General Court).

This rule grew out of a case involving John Dawe's seduction of an Indian woman, for which he was ordered "severely whipped" (9/6/31 Court of Assistants).

Answer 5

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What would be the punishment for a Puritan man who committed adultery?
I am reading the Scarlet Letter and I need to find out a man's punishment... thanks!

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Get pwned like Dimmesdale did.

Answer 8

Probably nothing, they would blame the women just as they did in that book