ccepting environment, they managed to alienate themselves. Even in that sort of atmosphere Puritans' unrealistic ideas of perfection within the individual as well as a desire for a Utopian society.
             were too much for the Dutch to stand, and eventually the Puritans became the first and last group to be essentially banned from Holland. After being excommunicated from the church of their homeland and forced out of the country from which they had sought refuge, the Puritans fled to the then fledgling colonies of America, led by John Winthrop. They were frighteningly unprepared for the winter and the difficult lifestyle they were about to endure. However, after many struggles, their communities began to emerge, and their legend of hypocrisy, repression, and fanaticism began anew.
             When Hester Prynne emerged from the prison, boldly displaying not only the impeccably embroidered scarlet "A" upon her breast, but also the one irrefutable sign of her shame, Pearl, it was not because she was proud of h
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