Does Candide's Punishments Fit His Crimes?

Since the prompt is about Candide,  I assume majority of the class is going to write about whether or not the punishment Candide deserved was just or unjust. Me on the other hand, I want to use another example to try and bring a different perspective into Voltaire's story. The first example I thought of when I thought of punishment was The Scarlet Letter. Just to recap, The Scarlet Letter tells of a young woman, Hester Prynne, who has committed adultery that resulted in her child, Pearl. Her punishment for this crime was to wear a scarlet letter "A" that stood for adultery, every day. When first reading this book, this doesn't seem like much of a punishment. But, we see how hard life is for Hester for the simple fact that everyone knows of her crime.  The belittle her and seclude from everything. Ultimately, we discover that her punishment is not wearing this scarlet letter but in fact be scorned by everyone of her crime/sin. Now to tie this back to Candide. Both of these stories were written a long time ago so punishments that these characters received would of course seem unjust to us now. I believe that these villages and towns placed these punishments so high to scare the citizens into behaving and following the law. When someone did misbehave, like Candide and Hester, they were punished to set an example to everyone else of what could happen to them. One specific example is when Candide was exiled from the castle for messing with Cunegonde. It was interesting to me how Candide was punished for something similar to Hester yet not as extreme and how these values, unlike others in the books, are still withheld today. A lot of countries today are still very strict on keeping marriage the key thing  before anything else. We see this in the United States but it very much so not enforced.