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=The Wrong Way of Community Life=

 

=In __The Scarlet Letter__, Nathaniel Hawthorne warns us about the dangers of an American Community that is run in an cruel and oppressive way. In 1600's Puritan Boston, if one did not act in the general, conformed and religous way of the community, they were publically humiliated for what they had done. In a community, when someone has done something wrong, it is our job as community members to help this person and pick their spirits back up, not publically humiliate them and make the situation worse. =

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** "The public is despotic in its temper, and is capable of denying common justice, when too strenuously demanded as a right; but quite as frequenty it awards more than justice, when the appeal is made, as despots love to have it made, entirely to its generosity" - Nathaniel Hawthorne**

"The prejudices which they shared in common with the latter were fortified in themselves by an iron framework of reasoning…” -Nathaniel Hawthorne

** “Clergymen paused in the street to address words of exhortation, that brought a crowd, with its mingled grin and frown, around the poor and sinful woman (Hester Prynne)"-Nathaniel Hawthorne **

 Hawthorne, Nathaniel. // The Scarlet Letter //. New York NY: Penguin Books, 2003. Print. = =

The community in Puritan Boston is cruel however, when one comforms to the "image" of the society, they are loved. This mindset cannot be used when we are trying to progress the American Character from "I to We." Everyone in the community, has to expose their indiviudality in terms of ideas, concerns stragetgies, skills and more in order for the entire community, of all classes, to be aware of everyone's situation. With the ideas of suppression in the Puritan Community, an entire great community cannot progress.

"Wanna Be Angel" - Foxy Shazam

I want my friends to think I'm awesome Awesome, awesome, yeah I want this world to think I care I don't care at all

I want my fans to think I'm so punk rock So punk rock and roll And all you hipsters say I'm gay <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Well I'm not gay at all!

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">For you I wear this mask <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">At home I tear it off <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">'Cause I don't need it <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">No, I don't need it at all

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">I'm a wanna-be, I'm a wanna-be angel <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">"Foxy Shazam - Wanna Be Angel + Lyrics." //YouTube//. Web. 1 Jun 2011. <[]> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">I'm a wanna-be, I'm a wanna-be angel

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Do you want to be dead? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Dude, yes I am, yes I am

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">You'll probably end up in heaven <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">And I'll be burning in hell <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">You'll probably end up in heaven <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">And I'll be burning in hell

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">I'm a wanna-be, I'm a wanna-be angel <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Come on, everybody, come on <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">I'm a wanna-be, I'm a wanna-be angel

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Do you want to be dead? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Dude, yes I am, yes I am

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">I'm a wanna-be, I'm a wanna-be angel <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">I'm a wanna-be, I'm a wanna-b <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">"Wanna Be Angel Lyrics." //MetroLyrics//. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Jun 2011. <[]>.

= = =<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">"Wanna Be Angel" by Foxy Shazam provides us with the struggle in life that the Puritans in their cruel and oppressive communities have to face. Everyone is a "wanna be angel" because they have to keep their exteriors and present themselves as pure, yet as the song says, and what Hester portrayed, " for you I wear a mask, at home I tear it off." This perfect society that the Puritans preach in turn makes life miserable for the habitants. If America is to re-shape its American Character, it must NOT follow the ways of Puritan Boston and their communal values. =

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