Scarlet Letter Historical context
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- Scarlet Letter Historical Context
- American Feminism
- Two years before novel was published political activism for women's rights began
- The Declaration Of Independance
- When scarlet letter was published in 1850, America, was less that 75 years old. The new nation remained heavily endebted to Europe
- New England Puritanism
- Many of the emigrants from England were fleeing religious persecution
- Puritan ethos disdained earthly pleasures
- The Scarlett Letter is set when the society was theocratic.
- American Feminism
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