Why Does Hawthorne's Description Of Their Clothing Convey About Their Characters?
The Scarlet Letter,Chapter 1, "The Prison Door"
Answer all the questions and drop the document in the Chapter 1 – The Scarlet Letter Dropbox.
1.Hawthorne's historical references are deliberately imprecise, but the decade of the 1640s is the approximate period when The Scarlet Letter takes place. The characters he describes in the first paragraph are early Massachusetts settlers, Puritan dissenters. What does Hawthorne's description of their clothing convey about their characters? They were very strict with everything they did, and everyone wore pretty much the same thing.
2.Why did these religiously oriented colonists establish a prison and a cemetery among their first public institutions? What do these institutions acknowledge about human
Answer all the questions and drop the document in the Chapter 1 – The Scarlet Letter Dropbox.
1.Hawthorne's historical references are deliberately imprecise, but the decade of the 1640s is the approximate period when The Scarlet Letter takes place. The characters he describes in the first paragraph are early Massachusetts settlers, Puritan dissenters. What does Hawthorne's description of their clothing convey about their characters? They were very strict with everything they did, and everyone wore pretty much the same thing.
2.Why did these religiously oriented colonists establish a prison and a cemetery among their first public institutions? What do these institutions acknowledge about human