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https://www.brighthubeducation.com/history-homework-help/112142-daily-life-of-a-puritan-colonist/
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nathaniel-hawthorne

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The Puritans finally settled in Charlestown, across the river from the peninsula, which is now considered Boston. Although they had finally settled, the colony still suffered due to a lack of fresh water.

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The Scarlet Letter also uses lots of physical symbolism such as the meteor, representing a message from God, the forest and wilderness, representing freedom and emotional escape, and the black man, representing all evil.

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The novel is meant to be a symbol of shame, but instead it becomes a powerful symbol of identity. The letter's meaning shifts as time passes. Originally intended to mark Hester as an adulterer, the “A” eventually comes to stand for “Able.

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The more dominant theme in the novel is Sin. Hester Prynne commits the crime of adultery and has broken a great moral law and a long-established social convention. Society, therefore, condemns her with the three hours standing on the scaffold and with the life long wearing of the scarlet letter on her.

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The main theme of the novel is to be true.  Hawthorne says on multiple occasions, "Be true, be true, be true".  Hester and Dimmesdale should have been honest and "true" since the beginning so they did did not have to suffer from guilt and sin.

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One of the original English settlements in present day Massachusetts is the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Settled in the 1600's by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England. The Puritans established a government with the franchise limited to church members.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne was an all American Author, born in 1804 in Salem Massachusetts. The rest of his family's last name is "Hathorne" and they were all puritans.  In order to distance himself for his family's shame full involvement in the Salem Witch trials, he added a "W" in his last name.

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Hawthorne's mother became very protective after their father died when Hawthorne was only four years old. This caused him to grow up shy and bookish, shaping his career as an author