Throughout the passage from the scarlet Letter, Author Nathaniel Hawthorne's emotions about the Puritans and the Puritan community are deeply expressed with a sense of critisism and mockery. The Puritans, who are to be honorable people with good morals, ... -so delicate lady. They also seem to isolate themselve from anyone or anything that is not like them, either mentally, spiritually, or physically. This passage indicates that the attitude the author implies is that Puritans, although said to be pure and honorable, can be just as unjust as any other. his feelings towards these people are no...

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In the novel The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne takes a very biased side against the Puritans he writes about. Hawthorne himself was a descendant of Puritan ancestors, and it seems that in many ways he still cannot escape ... their plain old human kindness and forgiveness. They just didn't understand that there were other things in life than their religion. Hawthorne's presentation of the Puritans throughout the novel The Scarlet Letter is not much different from my own opinion, though he leaves out even the slightest amount of good characteristics that they might possess. The Puritans h...

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American Renaissance Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," belongs to the period known as American romanticism, the period called, by F.O. Matthiessen, the American Renaissance. The American Renaissance took place roughly from 1840-1865, though the most significant work ... fiction, horror, and fantasy. Poe's work often explores questions of individual psychology, but can certainly be read to gesture to a sort of cultural psyche, a particular American unconscious. Herman Melville: an author of romantic fiction as was Hawthorne, Melville is particularly well known for his novel Moby-Dic...

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