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This is a 5 page paper that provides an overview of public morality in the works of Hawthorne and Miller. The dangers of public morality are tied to contemporary events through an analysis of trends and patterns in the texts. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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threat of ostracizing, public shaming, imprisonment, or even death. The detrimental effects of public morality on the individual has been the subject of many famous works of literature set in
Puritanical society, including Nathaniel Hawthornes "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Scarlet Letter", and Arthur Millers "The Crucible". In these works, the protagonists are pitted against the force of public morality,
and this provides the major source of conflict in each text. As figures such as Goodman Brown, John Proctor, and Arthur Dimmesdale struggle against the grim edicts of socially enforced
morality, they are placed into situations where the respective authors are able to highlight a critical deficiency of the entire public morality system: it invariably leads to an obsession with
the appearance of morality in the social sphere, rather than possessing the substance of morality in ones private life. Moreover, this obsession always leads to the destruction of the individual
and the detriment of society as a whole. Adopting similar recurring patterns and motifs, these three texts provide valuable insights into public morality, its potential dangers, and how they might
be averted. The primary pattern inherent in the three works is that they directly tackle the destructive aspects of public morality, through exploring how public morality encourages deceit and dishonesty,
causes distress and trauma, and ultimately destroys the individual who finds his or her self at odds with it. The first major pattern to emerge in the three works
in question is that they explore the means by which public morality tends to encourage deceit and dishonesty among citizens. All three texts are situated in Puritan society, which emphasizes
the importance of public morality; often, the public appearance of piety and morality seems to be of significantly greater importance than actual morality. In the case of "Young Goodman Brown",
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