The whole town of Boston, Massachusetts was made up of Puritans. They were very religious people and religion was basically their life. They worshiped God, the church and the reverend because they considered him the messenger from God. They were so

enslaved by their religion that they couldn't see anything past it.

" 'I'll tell ye a piece of my mind. It would be greatly for the public behoof, if

we women, being of mature age and church members in good repute, should have

the handling of such malefactresses as this Hester Prynne. What think ye, gossips?

If the hussy stood up for judgement before us five, that are now here in a knot

together, would she come off with such a sentence as the worshipful magistrates

have awarded? Marry, I trow not!' " (49)

Here, they were discussing Hester Prynne and here sin and how her punishment wasn't harsh enough. She broke one of God's laws and had to be punished so that she will remember it forever. They didn't even give a second thought to the fact that there had to be a male i

that sufficed, even in a land that afforded comparatively little scope for its exercise,

this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her attire and mien, and with the infant at

" Lonely as was Hester's situation, and without a friend on earth who dared

should remind him, indeed, but only by contrast, of that sacred image of sinless

nvolved in Hester's sin. Also, it could've been any of them, but of course that thought never crossed their minds.

almost only within a woman's grasp - of needlework." (78)

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