Hawthorne's Attitude Towards Puritans
Hawthorne's attitude towards the puritans varied, throughout the chapters Hawthorne showed that he disagreed with puritan views, but in some situations he found a couple of their rules true and reasonable. Hawthorne thought that the puritans were too strict and didn't let anyone get by without being what they called ‘good human beings’. Hawthorne also showed that the rule puritans had established of living within a community in order to still be civil was true. The book The Scarlet Letter was also Hawthorne's resource towards being able to question Puritan society, and to learn more about them, their beliefs about God, and how you were classified as a sinless and perfectly well human. In the beginning of the chapters the puritans first
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Hawthorne showed that he thought that a human being needs to constantly be surrounded by people in order to not lose their minds, throughout the chapters it is shown that Hester lived between the town and between the woods but since she completely was shutout from the world her way of thinking was starting to change. An example of Hawthorne writing that a person could lose their mind once losing contact was “Whether it were not better to send Pearl once to heaven, and go herself to such futurity as eternal justice should provide.”(152;chp.13), in this quote you can see that Hawthorne made it seem like Hester was kind of losing her mind and thinking about killing her daughter then committing suicide, the way that he wrote this and also pointed out that she was shutout from the world makes it clear that he agrees with being surrounded by people in order to avoid insanity. Hawthorne's attitude towards the puritans varied, throughout the chapters Hawthorne showed that he disagreed with puritan views, but in some situations he found a couple of their rules true and reasonable. He states with the details that he made in the book The Scarlet Letter that in some situations he agreed to the beliefs of puritans but in the occasional and most important situations he makes detail of the attitude, and the hatefulness that takes
Hawthorne showed that he thought that a human being needs to constantly be surrounded by people in order to not lose their minds, throughout the chapters it is shown that Hester lived between the town and between the woods but since she completely was shutout from the world her way of thinking was starting to change. An example of Hawthorne writing that a person could lose their mind once losing contact was “Whether it were not better to send Pearl once to heaven, and go herself to such futurity as eternal justice should provide.”(152;chp.13), in this quote you can see that Hawthorne made it seem like Hester was kind of losing her mind and thinking about killing her daughter then committing suicide, the way that he wrote this and also pointed out that she was shutout from the world makes it clear that he agrees with being surrounded by people in order to avoid insanity. Hawthorne's attitude towards the puritans varied, throughout the chapters Hawthorne showed that he disagreed with puritan views, but in some situations he found a couple of their rules true and reasonable. He states with the details that he made in the book The Scarlet Letter that in some situations he agreed to the beliefs of puritans but in the occasional and most important situations he makes detail of the attitude, and the hatefulness that takes