The Flaws Of Puritan Society

According to the dictionary society is the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. Throughout history the human race has seen many different types of societies and governments. Overtime the human race has seen which types of societies have worked and which ones have not worked. Throughout Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, one can see how the Puritan society was not always the perfect society that some believed it might have been during this time period. The Puritan society was founded upon a religious toleration movement that started in England. The Puritans came to America so that they could practice freedom of religion and create their own society. What happened though, as one can see throughout the course of history is that the flaws of the society begin to show. Nathaniel Hawthorne did a great job of writing about the faults that were found within the Puritan society of early America. Before getting into the bulk of the novel about Hawthorne’s flaws of Puritan society, one must first understand how Puritan society worked. Everything within the Puritan society was run through the …show more content…
One can see that Hawthorne was trying to argue against the Puritan way of life and the outcast system in which the society provoked. All are sinners but nobody’s sins are greater than another person’s sins, all are equal in the eyes of God. Hawthorne’s novel the Scarlet Letter shows many problems within the Puritan society and how bad the society was, looking back on it with a modernistic approach. The Scarlet Letter shows that adultery is a severe sin but both parties should be represented up on the platform of town stage. As ideals change so do societies and something that would once outcast a member, now just keeps them in check and fitting in with