Knowing that the novel was written 200 years after the fictionalized setting, what inference can you make about the societal values of the puritan age and hawthorne’s time?
a. hester is an admirable protagonist in hawthorne’s time but is considered a sinner in her own time.
b. hawthorne’s interpretation of hester’s sin is the same as puritan values in the 1600s.
c. societal values regarding sin did not change much between the puritan age and hawthorne’s time.

huck's relationship with food is a prominent theme throughout the novel, and during his time on jackson's island and working his way down river, huck revels in and enjoys his ad hoc dining. in the first chapter, we observe huck is ironically trapped in a "civilized" world, when he would prefer to live freely in nature.

it shaped life in both positive and negative ways. the positive sides of the medieval government was that it had a very strong and military. the citizens felt safer because of the high military interference. the citizens also had a positive attitude towards the artisan class and gave a huge respect to them. there is also a negative side of the government where the government would use the military too much on its citizens which created a sense of autocracy. it was oppressive to the peasants especially to the women.