What the people in these books are motivated by God. God is what moves them to do what they want - basically good. They do good things because they want to go to Heaven. Although the path to Heaven was already determined, I read through another source that basically doing bad things was a sign that you're definitely not going to Heaven, thus, they act well. They, are puritans. In the book and the poem, both are motivated by God. Hester is the perfect embodiment of Puritan beliefs, albeit a fictional character, she is the ultimate Puritan spawn off of Puritan beliefs - only living a plain lifestyle for God. Same with Anne Bradstreet. Real people wouldn't just ignore a burning house and watch their house as it goes away in embers. Even though sufficient technology did not exist at the time to put out the fire, in her mind, she had accepted immediately that God took it away.
God is their motivation.
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