1. Scarlet Letter: Views of Puritain Culture
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. ... His family name at his birth was Nathaniel Hathorne (which was not spelled with a "W"), though after Hawthorne had done some extensive research on the Salem Witch Trials and the Puritan culture, he became disgusted with their entire way of life and thence added a "W" to his family name which he carried until his death. ... He is supposed to exemplify Puritan life, and yet he lives extravagantly and selfishly, and even has a s...
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