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Puritan Theocracy in "The Scarlet Letter" was puritanic soci
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Puritanic Theocracy was highly present throughout the Scarlet Letter. It often came up when guilt was brought up. Any time townspeople shared opinions on Hester Puritan beliefs came into play.
"But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it. Her sin, her ignominy, were the roots which she had struck into the soil". page-73
This quote shows the effect that puritanic society has put on Hester. Hester knows that she messed up, But everyone makes mistakes so should Hester have to go through this mental jarring that she is undergoing. This quote goes into how she is feeling.
Puritan Theocracy in "The Scarlet Letter" was puritanic societies feelings that they had the right to control what people do and punish offenders while relying too much on religious beliefs and not taking into account people make mistakes.
This quote is the story of the Blackman that Hester tells Pearl about. The Blackman is hypothetical because he is the devil or his messenger. This is one of the stories puritans believe in. The Puritans tell their children this as a lesson so that they stray away from this and don't get involved. It is meant to scare them.
"O, a story about the Black Man!” answered Pearl, taking hold of her mother’s gown, and looking up, half-earnestly, half-mischievously, into her face. “How he haunts this forest, and carries a book with him,—a big, heavy book, with iron clasps; and how this ugly Black Man offers his book and an iron pen to every body that meets him here among the trees; and they are to write their names with their own blood. And then he sets his mark on their bosoms! Didst thou ever meet the Black Man, mother?”
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"On the supposition that Pearl, as already hinted, was of demon origin, these good people not unreasonably argued that a Christian interest in the mother's soul required them to remove such a stumbling-block from her path. If the child, on the other hand, were really capable of moral and religious growth, and possessed the elements of ultimate salvation, then, surely, it would enjoy all the fairer prospect of these advantages by being transferred to wiser and better guardianship than Hester Prynne's". page-91
-This quote shows how religious puritans were. Hester's sin will follow pearl even though there was nothing she could do about it. This being unless Pearl is removed from her mother and taught the christian way.