Hawthorne's Puritan Society

Title: Hawthorne's Puritan Society
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Hawthorne's Puritan Society
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 …showed first 75 words of 1103 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1103 total…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".

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