"For these reasons, among others, they carried about an air of innate resistance, even of persecution. Their fathers had, of course, been persecuted in England. So now they and their church found it necessary to deny any other sect its freedom, lest their New Jerusalem be defiled and corrupted by wrong ways and deceitful ideas" (140).
This quote is connected to the Scarlet Letter due to the fact that it contains persecutions and people searching for a new place to start a puritan religion, where they will not be hurt by the English government. Hester is related to this because in the quote it mentions a New Jerusalem and the new church often makes people feel like they are obliged to adhere to the rules.. thus Hester was put in jail for adultery.
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