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The Puritans' desire to make Puritanism a way of life for all of England led to civil war and unrest. In the 17th century some Puritans left England for the American colonies, creating Puritan settlements in towns such as Salem, Massachusetts.  \nPuritans believed they had a covenant with God—they were chosen through predestination to live a godly life—which redeemed them from sin. Nathaniel Hawthorne, descended from Puritans, also believed in the sinful nature of humans:  \n\"Young Goodman Brown\" is an allegory of the Fall of Man, which precipitated Original Sin. Although continuing to live a godly life in spite of his doubts offers no redemption for Brown—\"his dying hour was gloom\"—Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter manages a kind of 19th-century Transcendentalist redemption by fulfilling her human potential.  \nHawthorne's indictment of the Puritans, including his ancestors, has to do with their restrictive and punishing way of life and their oppression of anyone who did not agree with them, exactly the manner of oppression they had just escaped.  \nThe Puritans tortured and hanged Quakers in the mid-1600s, such as Mary Dyer (c. 1611), who dared to set foot in their colonies. They killed thousands of Native Americans in battles as well as torched settlements occupied by women, children, and elders in King Philip's War (1675–76) . In the frenzy created by Cotton Mather (1663–1728), the Puritans convicted 33 accused witches, hanging 19 of them and pressing to death elderly Giles Corey. Rejecting this violence as antithetical to the Puritans' Christian values, Hawthorne includes reference to all of the above in \"Young Goodman Brown,\" knowing his Hathorne ancestors were identified by name in the torture of Quakers and conviction of witches.  \nRomanticism  \nThe Romantic era, beginning in Europe in the late 18th century, was characterized by a focus on the emotional over the rational. 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