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The Scarlet Letter  | Symbols | Nathaniel Hawthorne

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https://www.notablebiographies.com/Gi-He/Hawthorne-Nathaniel.html

https://study.com/academy/lesson/puritans-in-america-beliefs-religion-history.html

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Puritanism

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The scarlet letter "A"  is an important sign of adultery and not being pure worn so that everyone knows that you sinned. The meteor was a message from God that everyone saw.The door being a trap or religion in a way .The forest is being out in the wilderness and within ones self and where she find a new "open" mindset.

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The Puritan religion is built out of the protestant religion based on very strict teachings that sought to make the church of England "pure" and free of any remains of Roman Catholic teachings and  practices.They believed their understanding with God was to fix everyone around them which lead to the harsh disciplinary actions they are known for , their way of pleasing God and making people clean.They also believed that salvation was not a choice when it happens it happens and you are therefore in it for the long run and only God had the authority to give it to someone.During the 1700 they became a powerful political party and went on to break away from the church and sail across the Atlantic to search for religious freedom.

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The beginning of Hawthorne's writing

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The symbolism

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Nathaniel Hawthorne or Nathaniel Hathorne by birth was born in on the fourth of July, 1804 into a Puritan family

Family Life
At the age of four Nathaniel did not have a father only a widow mother and two sisters

Schooling

After his father passed away when he was younger many of Nathaniel's other family members cared for him and his family. When it was time for him to get proper schooling his uncles helped pay for him to get an education at Bowdoin College where he was among many smart and intelligent people, this increased the skill of his writing by far.

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Effects on the writing
since the he 17th century was the major part of the Puritan mass migration  and