In both scenarios, there are men who are equally as guilty as these two, but the women receive more public attention. Since Hester's crime is adultery, the man she was with, Dimmesdale, is equally as guilty as she; however, society only punishes Hester for her crime. Even after Dimmesdale came forward and confessed his sin and died, some said he had “made the manner of his death a parable, to impress his admirers…we are all sinners alike” (Hawthorne 236). Despite admitting himself as guilty as Hester, Dimmesdale is still revered in the community, while Hester has to endure all the public shame for a crime they both committed. Martha Stewart wasn't alone in her insider trading scandal either, with much less publicized cases taking place around the same time as hers; Mark Swartz and Dennis Kozlowski, for example, “were convicted of defrauding Tyco out of $600 million” and “the misconduct of Worldcom and Enron cost investors billions and lost thousands of employees” (Baykal, McAlister and Sawayda 5). In both cases, there are people more deserving of shame than these two women, but both of their societies chose to castigate them. The severity of these two scandals is not as great compared to other crimes committed, but they are more publicized. After Hester and Dimmesdale's sin of adultery came Chillingworth's sin