The Puritans: Builders or Biggest? Puritans created a strong religious foundation for their land and people to live by, not to mention how they created capitalism and a democracy for our country. As a unified community, the Puritans built all of what is now Boston, and maintained great cultivato...

The gloomy portrayal, reflexive of the puritan society in chapter one of the Scarlet Letter, was formed by Nathaniel Hawthorne to not only foreshadow events in the novel, but to also unveil the thematic idea of social rejection and Hawthorne's own spurn of social conformity and idealism. Thro...