Nathaniel Hawthrone was raised in Massachusetts during the Puritan era. I think that due to his connection to the Puritan heritage through his ancestors who were Puritans and involved in the Salem witch trials of 1692, he wrote frequently about the 17th century Puritan era in American history to express his negative feelings about the cruelty and injustice of Puritanism that he had observed through his ancestors. Hawthrone was aware of his family's role in colonial America, and through his writing, I feel that he was able to express his opinion about Puritanism and emphasize the religious experiences he had witnessed by writing stories of characters going through life set in that time period.
The extreme world view of the Puritan belief of
The extreme world view of the Puritan belief of