Teacher comment: Good assertions though the essay was too short. To give depth and length look formorehel/ satan reputations in the forest. You could also provide specific quotes in your reference. The Woods is Our Hell The Puritans were a people that lived their entire lives in fear that their all powerful, all knowing God was not pleased with anything they ever did. The Puritans had a belief that anything they did not understand was …showed first 75 words of 630 total…

…showed last 75 words of 630 total…the relative's unholy deeds (333). This man is Hawthorne's representation of Lucifer. With Hawthorne's roots being in Salem I can appreciate the story that much more. I enjoyed that Hawthorne wrote this story knowing his relatives were the people that found refuge in their outlandish and narrow-minded views. The representation of hell, being the woods is brilliant because Hawthorne took one-minuet belief of the Puritans and developed a story I could read time and time again.