n the side of colonial authority. If Hawthorne knew about the real colonial Pynchons and their like, why did he ignore the varieties of Puritanism and portray it instead as a monolith, with heretics being the only exceptional individuals? Because, Madsen states, he was able in that way to excuse the sins of his fathers by showing that they were incapable of acting otherwise."(Korobkin)
             The first thing that is striking to a reader about Hawthorne's unique style is the self-conscious c
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