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The Scarlet Letter: Are the Puritans really like that?

Nathaniel Hawthorne accurately portrayed the colonial Puritans of Boston in his book, The Scarlet

Letter, and what their actions and reactions would have been to Hester Prynne committing adultery, and the

events thereafter, which also conform to what we know about the Puritans and how they were fastidiously

against sex in any form.

Not hardly.

In The Scarlet Letter, we see Hester Prynne, who is put on trial for committing adultery (from which

came a baby girl, Pearl) after her husband had been missing for four years, and presumed lost and drowned at

sea. This fits our thoughts of the Puritans and what they thought of sex, and how they probably would have

reacted to Hester's committing adultery. Hester Prynne is led from a prison door, carrying an infant and wearing

a scarlet "A" she has meticulously embroidered. She stands on the scaffold in the public square of Salem,

Massachusetts,......

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