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Hurry then here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by painfully prudish puritan punishment Just don't obliterate to the

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puritans They don't take kindly to poetry All right take

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a look at this passage Wait shmoop what with meagher's

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weird trance ground Get it All right that was really

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fun What purpose does the transition on the other hand

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achieve in the last senses of paragraph line Right here

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all right answer Choices are Hey all right well first

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let's take a look at the language he's Using the

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phrase on the other hand means we're contrasting two things

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pants but what well from the earlier senses it's pretty

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clear our narrator is not wild about the purity is

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less than forgiving punishments he states Thatjust severe punishments of

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the past would be mocked in the present but that's

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not the contrast the narrator's making here Instead we're getting

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a comparison between the lack of sympathy for criminals and

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the dignity attributed to over the top punished So on

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the other hand is contrasting attitudes toward criminals and punishments

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In other words the answer is letter eh Hawthorns Favorite 00:01:29.549 --> [endTime] letter way yeah

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