1. Scarlet Letter Puritan Views
... through his representation of the priests and the governor's greed. Nathaniel Hawthorne is born with a biased against this culture; this is because of his ancestral lineage to one of the leading participants in the Salem Witch Trials. It was because of this lineage that Hawthorne likely changed his name. His family name at his ... the townswomen is one prevalent example. At the beginning of the novel when Hester is forced to stand upon the scaffold and serve out her sentence for her sin, the townswomen heckle and ridicule her for what she had done. They repeatedly stress their desire for ...
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