The Scarlet Letter | Social Concerns
Nathaniel Hawthorne has been described as the chronicler of America's Puritan heritage. The Scarlet Letter is the best known of dozens of novels and tales in which the writer recreates the ambiance of a period in American history when religious and social intolerance stifled individual expression and forced young men and women to restrain their natural passions. Not only were personal idiosyncrasies looked upon with disdain or even hostility; the countryside was in the grips of hysteria stirred up by preachers and politicians who engendered a religious fervor among the populace, to...
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