..or anytime around whenThe Scarlet Letter was written.I am doing a paper on why the three scenes at the scaffold were so significant.So I decided to include the history of scaffolds, but I can't seem to find any information on them.help please? :]SOURCES..if possible! :]
Mostly the person would be taken onto the scaffold , a rope fixed around their neck, and then the trap door would open and they would drop through and choke to death , very rarely did the neck break in those days , so relatives and friends would pull on the legs , thus to speed up death. Earlier in history people were strung up from trees , and sometimes stood in the back of a cart which was driven away leaving them dangling. The platform on which the guillotine was stood was also called a scaffold at times. These executions were turned into social events and hundreds of people used to go to look.
