Background information

The Scarlet Letter was written about the time of the Salem Witch trials and that creates the theme to the novel.  This Novel was released to the U.S. in 1850. During the Salem Witch trials people were convicted of being witches all the time.  This usually lead to jail and/or death.  Massachusetts had a lot of suspicion all the time and this lead to a lot of issues within the people and who was convicted.  When anyone did anything wrong, they would immediately be convicted of witchcraft.  Many people were convicted and there were no ways to prove they were not really a witch, which cause problems.