Hi, I need help with essay on America: Past, Present, and Future. Paper must be at least 1500 words. Please, no plagiarized work!(Davis, 2005)When he returned to Salem after graduation, his habit of r

Hi, I need help with essay on America: Past, Present, and Future. Paper must be at least 1500 words. Please, no plagiarized work!

(Davis, 2005)

When he returned to Salem after graduation, his habit of remaining closeted within his shell did not leave him. He spent his mornings in studies and his afternoons in writing while he took long solitary walks in the evenings. He started living in his world of dreams and often saw reality through tinted glasses of a dreamer who dreams of utopia.

He hardly had any friends in the town and held minimal conversations with his family members, and his meals were more often than not left at the door of his room which was almost always tightly shut. (Miller, 1991)

When he became aware of his great-great-grandmother’s prominent role in the infamous Salem Witch Trials (Laurel, 1992), he added an extra ‘w’ to his original surname ‘Hathorne’ simply to break away (symbolically, at least) from the burdens of unpleasant legacy. This gesture loudly proclaimed Hawthorne’s inherent tendency to protest against what he felt was unjust and biased.

New England of late seventeenth century happened to be the backdrop of this novel and a suffocating Puritan concept of eternal sin and divine retribution for those who dare God and refuse to repent, drips from every page. Hawthorne seethes with rage at the dehumanization of women that was prevalent in that era but a sense of resignation to destiny and hopelessness in the inability to change the existing structure also co-exist in this novel.

The illegitimate love affair between Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale – an unpardonable act which adultery was in those days, is what the novel is all about. Hawthorne celebrates this rebellion of a woman against the oppressive mores of the society by imparting in Hester an almost superhuman courage and power to face social stigma of illegitimate love and unpardonable adultery for seven long years rather than exposing her beloved and spoiling his career and social standing forever. (Bell, 1980)

Puritan Boston in the days of early