Society brainwashed its people into thinking that it was "God's" wish to have women act as if they were robots; they were to cook, clean, bare children, listen to their husband's demands, and all the while keeping silent and smiling. ... "Then God Bless you, said Faith, with the pink ribbons; and may you find all well when you come back" (Hawthorne 288). ... Although this piece of literature does not italicize specific restrictions or limitations that women of this time period had to face, it does make small references to them. ... When he finds out that this women practices witch...

• Word Count: 1338
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The forest is a place where the both of them, Hester and Dimmesdale, may have an open, truthful conversation without the restrictions of a strict Puritan society, where their sin, mainly Hester's due to its openness in the novel, will prevent even an attempt to carry a small chat. ... She talks to him about things they could never endeavor to discuss in any other place, mainly concerning the topic of their relationship that they had seven years ago. ... The narrator makes it clear of this saying that "God, as a direct consequence of the sin which man thus punished, had given her a lovel...

• Word Count: 2041
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School