Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and director Gary Ross’ Pleasantville provide many examples of characters being the complete opposite internally than how they are viewed externally. They characterize this with a strong theme of misjudgement towards many characters. Hawthorne and Gary Ross also portray this with examples which involves a person being falsely judged in society or dealing with a problem within themselves that they cannot display publicly. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is about a young woman named Hester Prynne who is viewed as a disgrace to her strictly religious society after committing the sin of adultery. Hester and her daughter Pearl are looked down upon by the Puritans and completely isolated throughout the novel. Gary
