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The Puritan Society in N. Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
In the introductory sketch to Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel the "The Scarlet
Letter", the reader is informed that one of the author's ancestors
persecuted the Quakers harshly. The latter's son was a high judge in the
Salem witch trials, put into literary form in Arthur M ....
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.... of this sin off him.
The initial reason for the Puritans to leave their homes was the treatment
they had to suffer from in their native England. They were brutally
persecuted and were not allowed to practise their religion, because they
said that the beliefs taught by the Anglican church were against the Bible.
When they arrived in the New World, they were confronted with numerous
threats from the outside. Their trying to take land away from the Indians
caused many fights and attacks. Moreover, they had to deal with the total
wilderness surround ....
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