In the early century, when Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The scarlet letter, americans hadmixed feelings about tge religous and philosophical legacy left by their putitain ancestors. Describe the conflicts that many americans felt regarding puttianism ingluence on the development of anational ifentity. What putitain ideals should br kepy, and which onee ehould be teeisted or left out.

In choosing Puritan New England as his backdrop, Hawthorne had provided a rich texture for his drama of human suffering. His ending, written in the nineteenth century, seems a hopeful sign that future generations will move toward a less gloomy, less repressive society where human compassion and tolerance will balance the community laws.

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autobiography of an ex-colored man is told from the first-person point of view of an unnamed male narrator. he starts his tale by stating that he is going to reveal the great secret of his life. he first takes the reader to his childhood in georgia where he was raised by a single mother. he was dissapointed in his own color.

answer: c

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