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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne expresses the aspects of relationships,

religion, community, discipline and punishment in the puritan community of 17th century

Boston.

Relationships between men and women were very constrained and that is what

made adultery such a bad sin in the eyes of everyone in the community. Religion seemed

to govern over all, people would look up to reverends and the community believed that

fate was their destiny. Public discipline and punishment were used to discourage

everyone else from committing the same crime or sin as the offending "criminal" did.

The community was to follow the beliefs of god and to do their duties the best they

could, yet were there to criticize and punish all who disobeyed the religion or laws. In

17th century Boston every thing was very strict and everyone was expected to follow the

laws, which makes Hester's sin such an excellent example of the beliefs of that time

period. The first scaffold scene is very......

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