In the novel "The Scarlet Letter", the author Nathaneil Hawthorn's depiction of the two male characters, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth, emphasizes the moral problems of the seventeenth century puritan society. ...

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• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The New England colonies were a direct outgrowth of a renewal of religious conflict in England. The more intense Protestants, calling themselves the Puritans, demanded a simplification of the church and less control by the English church. The Puritans intended the Massachusetts Bay colony "to be a...

• Word Count: 688
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The New England colonies were a direct outgrowth of a renewal of religious conflict in England. The more intense Protestants, calling themselves the Puritans, demanded a simplification of the church and less control by the English church. The Puritans intended the Massachusetts Bay colony "to be a...

• Word Count: 688
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate