Sociological Approach Essay

ARTHUR DIMMESDALE’S HYPOCRISY AS A
PURITAN CLERGYMAN IN NATHANIEL
HAWTHORNE’S THE SCARLET LETTER
(A Sociological Approach)

THESIS

Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment of Requirements
For the Sarjana Sastra Degree in English Depatment
Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts
Sebelas Maret University

By:
NURIN ANITASARI
C0305054

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LETTERS AND FINE ARTS
SEBELAS MARET UNIVERSITY
SURAKARTA
2010

ARTHUR DIMMESDALE’S HYPOCRISY AS A PURITAN
CLERGYMAN IN NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE’S THE SCARLET
LETTER
(A Sociological Approach)
By:
NURIN ANITASARI
C0305054

Approved to be examined before the Board of Examiners
Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts
Sebelas Maret University

Thesis consultant

Dra. Rara Sugiarti,
Meanwhile, the second group called The Separatist is the group that could not run the model of Calvinistic Christianity they believed. They got their name for they separated themselves from the Church of England and tried to have their own Church which was free from the

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Roman Catholicism. The Separatist moved out of England to find a place to where they could make their dreams come true.
The Puritans who left England firstly found Holland, before arriving at New England, as the suitable place to run their belief. As Bradford stated in Miller (1982), the Puritans, who were badly treated and felt that there was no hope to continue their life in England, decided to go to the Low
Countries, where they believed they could get their freedom and be far away from persecution, and found Amsterdam and its surrounding area as a suitable place to live (Bradford in Miller, 1982: 7). After living there for about eleven or twelve years, the Puritans began thinking for removal due to several reasons. William Bradford composed for reasons for the Puritans to leave
Holland as follow:
“And first, they saw and found by experience the hardness of the place and country to be such as few in comparison would come
They built colonization and called the place New England.
The first Puritans arriving at America (1620) were the Separatists who wanted to separate themselves from the established Church of England rather than change its improper contents (Crawford, 1953: 12). They became
The Pilgrims who started the colonization in New England. “Ten years later came the founders of Massachusetts Bay Colony, a large band of conservative
Puritans, led by landed gentry, wealthy merchants, university graduates”
(Foerster, 1962: 3). These Puritans called themselves “Nonseparating
Congregationalist,” by which they meant that they had not denied the Church of England as a false Church. However, in practical life, they behaved like
The Separatists. The migration lasted all over two decades and then spread into the so called Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Maine, and the limit borderline of New England.
The Puritans came to New England because of some religious, political, and economic purposes. Their basic aims were avoiding conflicts with the King and finding a religious freedom to spread their belief. In