Puritans

I first encountered the vocabulary “Puritans” when I was reading The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Puritans community to me was this indifference clan of cold-blooded people who wanted to purify the whole nation. However Cullen states at the beginning of the chapter that Puritans could be not as bad as we thought despite the fact that they have their notorious reputation. They came here with a dream of living in an ideal world, looking for a fresh start. Whether they had succeed or not, Puritanism is an essential block of our history.