It is quite clear that he detests the so called “purity” of the Puritans as he describes them as such in the story: “Not far from Merry Mount was a settlement of Puritans, most dismal wretches, who said their prayers before daylight... till evening made it prayer time again. Their weapons were always at hand to shoot down the straggling savage. When they met in conclave, it was never to keep up the old English mirth, but to hear sermons three hours long...” (Hawthorne p.4). The Puritans in this case spend too much of their lives wallowing in gloom by fighting for their existence in what Bradford calls in Of Plymouth Plantation: “... a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men...” (Bradford
It is quite clear that he detests the so called “purity” of the Puritans as he describes them as such in the story: “Not far from Merry Mount was a settlement of Puritans, most dismal wretches, who said their prayers before daylight... till evening made it prayer time again. Their weapons were always at hand to shoot down the straggling savage. When they met in conclave, it was never to keep up the old English mirth, but to hear sermons three hours long...” (Hawthorne p.4). The Puritans in this case spend too much of their lives wallowing in gloom by fighting for their existence in what Bradford calls in Of Plymouth Plantation: “... a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men...” (Bradford