Journal 9: Motivation

Most of the motivations of the Puritan Era is motivated by church and religious ideas. This is because during the era, there is a very strong sense of pious and devoutness in everyone's mind mainly because the only reason they left England was because of religious reasons so if religious reasons were so strong so as to make them leave their home country, it must be a very important part of their living style. Also, because everyone of the Puritan Era in the America is a puritan, there is a huge puritan influence on the society, making the government and town heavily influenced by Puritan sense. In the Puritan society, the rules are intermingled with Puritan ideas and customs because the legislature believe in the Puritan value and would set rules and laws according to their custom and moral judgement. However, there are non conformists like Hester Prynne in the society that doesn't just want to live in the box and live their life in an extremely conservative fashion. They didn't want to conform to the stringent orthodoxical living style of the Puritan society because they believe in freedom. This is what motivated Hester Prynne. I don't think Hester is very into love and she is desperate so she had to commit adultery. I think she didn't go against his husband but she went against the system, she committed adultery just for the sake of breaking out of leash and felt a thread of freedom.