Why people are attracted to conspiratorial thinking?

What can be concluded about rainsford from the narration

Read this excerpt from the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne and complete the sentence that follows. she had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate. the author uses the point of view in the excerpt.

Would the essay be more effective in explaining the concept of dead reckoning if you knew from the beginning that ahmed is an ant?