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does the puritan setting help the theme in scarlett letter

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The Puritan era during which the action of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter takes place embodied a society in which the individual and his or her actions were often pitted against a social order determined to stamp out behaviours it considered immoral. The Puritans believed that devil was behind every evil deed.

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