... the introduction of The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne writes about his various meetings with Ellery Channing, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson (Hawthorne pg. 27). These people and their experiences must have sparked something into the story's atmosphere. Real life experiences is sometimes more interesting and, obviously, easier to understand. Vicariously, Nathaniel Hawthorne could have gone the same route exposing his Puritan attitude in the plot of the ... is ethical also plays a necessary part to the development in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. "The mind's eye, or the imaginat...

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... sinners is because of the Puritan beliefs of the time period. This is the driving force between the actions of the characters. The setting of a religiously intolerant village is also the main reason behind the conflict that lies in each plot. The conflicts in both works of literature are also similar. The same thing, the excessively devout town in which the setting takes place, causes them both. The conflict in The Scarlet Letter that occurs between Dimmesdale ... , Hester, and Chillingworth; is caused by the towns intolerance for ... ...

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