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scarlet
Title: scarlet
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 961 | Pages: 4.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
scarlet
Puritans, or “the pure ones,” were English Protestants in the 16th century who enforced strict laws, principles, discipline, and religion. They strongly believed in leading simple, ordinary, religious lives. Therefore, a Puritanistic society would not tolerate any complex matters of self- expression or allow any violations of laws that would upset their “pure” way of living. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses nature as a shelter from the strict mandates of the …showed first 75 words of 961 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 961 total…shows the need to escape from a world of order to a natural world. Through the forest he gives the characters a place to run off to where their true emotions can be expressed. Here stories of sin are whispered to a babbling brook, and passions as wild as a rosebush by a prison door are ignited. Nature is used as a shelter of freedom from the strict laws one must uphold in Puritan life.
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