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Worldview Guide for The Scarlet Letter

Worldview Guide for The Scarlet Letter

Wilson, Douglas

Paperback

Series: Canon Classics Literature

Young Adult Nonfiction

ISBN10: 1591282500
ISBN13: 9781591282501
Publisher: Canon Pr
Published: Mar 1 2019
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Everyone thinks they know what the Puritans were like, and a big part of the reason why they think they know this can be found in this book, The Scarlet Letter .


Since Nathaniel Hawthorne was a New Englander who wrote back in the old days, we sometimes assume that he learned about Puritanism by looking out his window. But the book is set in 1642, and was published in 1850-over two centuries later. While Hawthorne was descended from Puritans-his great, great grandfather was the only judge in the Salem witch trials who did not repent of what he had done-that world was long gone by Hawthorne's day. Perhaps his ancestry is where Hawthorne acquired his somewhat morbid turn of mind. -From Douglas Wilson's guide

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