Hawthorne's Puritan Society
Title: Hawthorne's Puritan Society
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 1103 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Hawthorne's Puritan Society
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 1103 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Hawthorne's Puritan Society
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, life is centered
around a rigid Puritan society in which one is unable to divulge his
or her innermost thoughts and secrets. Every human being needs the
opportunity to express how he or she truly feels, otherwise the
emotions are bottled up until they become volatile. Unfortunately,
Puritan society did not permit this kind of expression, thus
characters had to seek alternate means to relieve their
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wild as the forest itself. There are no
restraints in the natural world, because it is just that, natural. No
intrusion from people means no disturbance in the natural order, and
therefore serves to bring its inhabitants away from their world, and
into this older one. I believe Michel Eyquem de Montaigne stated it
most emphatically when he said "Let us permit nature to have her way:
she understands her business better than we do".