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  1. Obviously, it does not bode well to be too happy in the colony, or reprimand is sure to follow. In the recounting of the New England holiday set aside to honor a change in government, Hawthorne describes the non-Puritan parade-goers in the most joyful of terms.

    • Chapter 17

      Also in this chapter, Hawthorne reveals his philosophy on...

    • Hester Prynne

      What is most remarkable about Hester Prynne is her strength...

    • Roger Chillingworth

      Chillingworth is not a Puritan. While he was a captive of...

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  2. Oct 8, 2015 · Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter critiques Puritan ideology, depicting it as rigid, hypocritical, and oppressive. Through characters like Hester Prynne, who is ostracized for adultery ...

  3. Feb 28, 2024 · The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a compelling examination of the subject of Puritanism in early colonial America. The work highlights the oppression, hypocrisy, struggle, and fatalism that defined the Puritan way of life via the experiences of its protagonists. This essay will examine how Hawthorne utilizes his characters and their ...

  4. 1) "The wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed (sullen/unfriendly) and gloomy front. The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than anything else in the New World. Like all that pertains to crime, it seemed never to have ...

  5. The Hypocrisy of Puritanism. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Young Goodman Brown, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Hawthorne sets “Young Goodman Brown” in the New England town of Salem, where the Puritans tried to create a religious society with strict morals and pious norms, but also where the ...

  6. Mar 26, 2013 · But there’s another reason for this poignancy. A century before Hawthorne, another genius roamed the Berkshire Mountains. He too was lost in thought; like the novelist, he too would have had few words for fellow passers-by. Jonathan Edwards was also a post-Puritan, but only in terms of chronology. He was, as some have said, the last of the ...

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  8. Nov 26, 2019 · Nathaniel Hawthorne ’s reading in American colonial history confirmed his basically ambivalent attitude toward the American past, particularly the form that Puritanism took in the New England colonies. Especially interested in the intensity of the Puritan-Cavalier rivalry, the Puritan inclination to credit manifestations of the supernatural ...

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