Who Is Nathaniel Hawthorne A Puritan

Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne is an incredibly famous American writer. Throughout many of Hawthorne’s publishing’s he shows elements of Christianity and religious beliefs. He most famously shows this in his novel The Scarlett Letter which shows the aspects of Puritanism, which is a dominate theme in the novel. Although his books contain religious content he does not always show the positive sides of it. In The Scarlett Letter Hawthorne presents the cruel and harsh punishment that the protagonist, Hester Prynne, goes through that the Puritans have forced upon her. Hawthorne predominately shows the Puritan rule through this novel and also the persecution of anyone who goes against them. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born July 4, 1804