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Pearl is Hester's daughter, as well as a symbol for sin and redemption. She's a living reminder and symbol for Hester's adultery, her sin. However it also represents Hester's hope of redemption.

The Scarlet letter, is Hester's sin, however she doesnt let it dictate her, and she owns it. She makes the symbol her own. Later on, the letter "A" comes to stand not for the word "adultery", but for "able" as in she can do anything.

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* the Puritan attack on the established church gained popular strength, especially in East Anglia and among the lawyers and merchants of London. The movement found wide support among these new professional classes, in part because it was congenial to their growing discontent with mercantile economic restraints.
* Many men and women were more and more forced to contend with the dislocations–emotional as well as physical–that accompanied the beginnings of a market economy.

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* The Salem Witch Trials took place in Salem in the year 1692.  Like many of the settlements in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Salem was under a lot of stress at the time due to disease epidemics, warfare with local Native-Americans, crop failures and the political turmoil brought about by the colony’s loss of the original charter in 1684 and the establishment of a new royal charter in 1691. It is believed these issues were some of the underlying factors that caused the witch trials.

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The themes of Passion is shown with Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale as she has an affair with and cheats on Chillingsworth. Whom was never her true lover.

As well as Sin/Guilt in which is shown from the Scarlett letter A that hangs around her neck indicating her of sin.

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Born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, Nathaniel Hawthorne was originally named Nathaniel Hathorne. He was the sixth generation of Massachusetts Hathornes, a long line of Puritans who had notably engaged in the persecution of non-Puritans. Nathaniel Hawthorne added the 2 to his name in order to distance himself from the family history of violence and hatred.

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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Born: 1804 Salem, Massachusetts

Originally named Nathaniel Hathorne, he added the "w" to distance himself from his family line of puritans that persecuted non-perutians.

Death: May 19, 1864 , New Hampshire and died of natural causes.

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“17th Century Massachusetts.” History of Massachusetts, 11 Aug. 2018, historyofmassachusetts.org/17th-century-massachusetts/.In-text Citation

Hawthorne, Julian. “'The Scarlet Letter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Reviewed.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 16 Mar. 2018, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1886/04/the-scarlet-letter-by-nathaniel-hawthorne/304668/.In-text Citation