Cultura apuntes 5/7/17 The Scarlet Letter

Period of the revolution: took place during the time in which the american colonies got their
indepedence.

Puritanism and enlightment:

Puritan: they used to shape a community. Proposed hard discipline. Sobriety: living without
luxury, without wasting money. They proposed the idea of THRIFT: to save. Living according
people to live with the puritan standard. Hester example of what could happen

Heaven and sin: a sin was a barrier in our way to heaven. Heaven was the conception of god. To
be in contact with god, if you committed a lot of sins you cannot be in contact with god.

Puritanism influence people, but that ideology was intertwined with other . Like
TRANSCENDENTALISM. Puritanism was a religious sect present in the 17 thand 18th century and
started to lose power in the 19th century.

Trascend: period in literature that coincides with romanticism in Europe. Influenced by

European romanticism.

God could manifest in NATURE, he was everywhere. NATURE. The subject matter of the novels
is usually nature.

They considered that it was not necessary to go to church to be in contact with God.

The novel: mixture of puritanism and transcendentalism.

Hester is an example of not needing church to be in contact with god. She continued to be

HESTER IS A SIMBOL OF TRASCENDENTALISM