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Life in the Puritan 17th century Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Life in the Puritan 17th century Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Puritans became successful because of their farming and selling of crops. They were mostly successful and were "One of the first groups to live old enough to see their grandchildren." The Puritans were obviously a very religious group, they thought that they needed to spread Catholic beliefs and that England would be punished for their sins.

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Life in the Puritan 17th century Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Life in the Puritan 17th century Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Before the 17th century, there were many Native Americans living in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but when the 17th century started and more Puritans were coming over, they brought many diseases to the land that killed off many Natives. The colonist actually still experienced many difficulties, such as diseases, hard, long summers, cold winters, etc.

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Another symbol in the Scarlet Letter is that the letter is shown as a sign of shame. When you have to wear the letter, you are showing off something that is very shameful, so the letter has evolved to be a symbol of shamefulness.

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The symbolism in Scarlet Letter is that the Scarlet letter is a symbol of identity for Hester. Since a "Scarlet Letter" basically is a symbol for someone that has commit the crime of adultery, the letter is something that Hester identifies with.

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Another theme of the novel is revenge. A big part in this novel is all of the characters urge to get revenge on one another. But in the end, God is the main person who can get revenge on the town.

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The biggest theme in the novel "Scarlet Letter" is sin. All of the characters take sin very seriously in the novel and should be punished very extremely. The entire book is centered around sin and "whose sin is considered worse than another."

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Nathaniel grew up with two sister and his parents, but early in his life, his father died of Yellow Fever. He started to love reading and writing after experiencing a bad leg injury which led him to be immobile for a little bit, where he spend most of his time reading and writing. Later in life he married Sophia Peabody, and together they had three kids. He ended up dying in 1864 of bad health.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author of "The Scarlet Letter" grew up during the 19th Century in Salem, Massachusetts. He was born in 1804 and died in 1864, in Plymouth,  New Hampshire. He was raised by his parents Nathaniel and Elizabeth Clark Hathorn. Hawthorne's ancestors actually spelled their name without the 'w' in it (Hathorne), but since Nathaniel was trying to distance himself because of his families harsh past, he added the 'w' to make it Hawthorne.