... the audience a 1600 Puritan society. This "utopia- has people who all seem to be very ugly and uptight. They all think that they live with such perfect values that they all jump on Hester Prynne for having this baby out of wedlock. However, a good example of how the colony has deteriorated is when Hawthorne ... to draw the conclusion from the story by following the themes and seeing how the distortion itself can heighten our responses to the actions of the novel. The Scarlet Letter is very distorted in its depiction of the appearance of the letter, the meaning of the letter, and the affec...

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