The Scarlet Letter There is much dispute as to whether or not The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, can be a viable document used to understand the 1600s during the time of Puritanism. ... Author of Hawthorne's Conception of the Creative Process, Richard J. ... Morality and what is ethical also plays a necessary part to the development in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. ... As Gorman puts it, "The Scarlet Letter was a shadow of his own spiritual past" (Gorman pg. 144). ... In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne begins to explain the surrounding area of his Puritan town...

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In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, draws attention to the negative qualities pertaining to the Puritan lifestyles and beliefs of the 17th century. ... As a result of this, he wrote The Scarlet Letter to show that nothing benefited from puritan ideology. ...

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Throughout the passage from the scarlet Letter, Author Nathaniel Hawthorne's emotions about the Puritans and the Puritan community are deeply expressed with a sense of critisism and mockery. ... This passage indicates that the attitude the author implies is that Puritans, although said to be pure and honorable, can be just as unjust as any other. ...

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In the novel The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne takes a very biased side against the Puritans he writes about. ... Hawthorne's presentation of the Puritans throughout the novel The Scarlet Letter is not much different from my own opinion, though he leaves out even the slightest amount of good characteristics that they might possess. ... Hawthorne was indeed, as one author claims "harsher than his Puritans" by leaving out the good qualities they were supposed to hold. Even though he wrote The Scarlet Letter subjectively against the Puritan culture, one should not overlook the pos...

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American Renaissance Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," belongs to the period known as American romanticism, the period called, by F.O. ... Recent texts have challenged Matthiessen's notion of an American Renaissance, pointing out that the work of major American authors of this period did not occur in a vacuum. ... Reynolds points out that a subversive literature existed prior to the work of the major authors of the American Renaissance, in the form of sensational crime novels, erotic writings, humor writing, etc. ... Herman Melville: an author of romantic fiction as was Ha...

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