... whether through pride, fear, or determination they've become tremendously constrained to strict adherence to the doctrine that has put them where they are. Adamant "antinomianism" reaches a point where this new town free of religious persecution has become a place where moral law is arguably just as violently enforced as in the countries they fled. Hawthorne creates a protagonist that is likely weary ... can ever assess if he has truly made every effort to reach his intellectual potential, his faith and civil obligation should hold him to his word. Hawthorne has constructed such a chara...

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