The name mangel-wurzel has German origins mangel or mangold refers to the silverbeet-like leaves, and wurzel means 'root' and it is also known as yellow mangel, mangold or mangold-wurzel.
Notions of freedom, liberty, and the role of religion within the state have long since been at the forefront of national debates. When the Puritans considered such ideas, their thoughts and writings on the matter were never quite forgotten, only shifted and modified to suit the taste of contemporary concerns.
The writer spent the next six years in Europe. He died in 1864, a few years after returning to America. The majority of Hawthorneâs work takes Americaâs Puritan past as its subject, but The Scarlet Letter uses the material to greatest effect. The Puritans were a group of religious reformers who arrived in Massachusetts in the 1630s under the leadership of John Winthrop (whose death is recounted in the novel).