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Early Americans In William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation
Early Americans as depicted in William Bradford’s primary source document Of Plymouth Plantation (1640), were God-fearing, compassionate, christians who traveled from Old England to Early America were faced with disease, sickness, hunger, weather, and Indians. The Puritans that traveled there spread the word of god with the Indians and built a place of worship. While, The Scarlet Letter (1850), by Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays these traditional Puritans as: harsh, judgmental, religion based, do everything by the book (in this case, the Bible). Their town was rustic and grim with the prison being the first to be built with spikes on the door. After a young woman by the name of Hester Prinn committed adultery, she was forced to wear the letter “A” on her chest as a form of public shame for the rest of her life. This letter represented the crime she committed. The audience meant for Bradford’s text was for Old England Europeans and other Puritans, while the audience for Hawthorne's novel was for a 19th century audience.
The 17th Century Of Plymouth Plantation was about the pilgrims coming to Early America’s land. The Pilgrims were “On a dangerous voyage across the ocean.” they also had a person on the ship that died, “William Butten died from the harshness of the voyage.” When they
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After the prison was built the church came. Considering the fact that they were Strong Christians and did everything by the bible, this was odd because they built a place of punishment before a place of worship. A Woman named Hester Prinn commits adultery after her husband was gone for 3 years. The townsfolk found out and she got put out in public while wearing the letter “A” on her chest for the crime she committed. Hawthorne supports what he says by saying “this woman has brought shame upon us and ought to die.” Says the town

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