What are some different passages that reveal what the villagers fear and most want in "The Scarlet Letter"?

The first
two chapters of " " have the longest
passages describing the villagers of Boston. In
the first chapter, Hawthorne
paints a picture of a town that sincerely wants to be is a utopia,
but it has
found it must built both a prison and a cemetery.Thus, both sin, which the
Puritans
feared and death, which was inevitable, were active in the village.
In the second chapter, the
reason for the Puritans fear of sin is revealed
during the...