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A 5 page paper looking at the question of why Hawthorne based this unattractive character in The Blithedale Romance on one of the leading feminists of the nineteenth century. The paper chronicles their acquaintance through Brook Farm and the transcendentalist movement, and shows how this was reflected in Hawthorne's book. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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integral part of the Hawthorne canon -- deeply rooted in New England and in the nineteenth-century New England experience -- and reflects, as all Hawthornes books do, the authors own
views and experiences. The Blithedale Romance reflects Hawthornes involvement, some nine years before, with a untopian commune called Brook Farm -- and in particular with a woman named Margaret Fuller.
In 1841, two social idealists named George and Sophia Ripley founded a working communal farm in Massachusetts, which they called Brook Farm. The Ripleys were transcendentalists, a philosophical view of
the world which held that humanity was perfectible, and that this could be accomplished through the exercise of emotion and intuition, and getting away from society to commune with nature.
They were intensely self-sufficient, and believed that each individual held within himself the answers to his own spirituality. Because they placed so much emphasis on freedom and self-expression, the transcendentalists
attracted many writers and other similarly self-expressive sorts. Most of the famous American literary figures of the early nineteenth century at least flirted with transcendentalism. In Nathaniel Hawthornes case,
he actually went so far as serve as one of the original shareholders of Brook Farm, which, according to the Massachusetts Historical Society, "combined the theories of individual self reliance
from New England Transcendentalism with the more radical social reforms of the time" (Massachusetts, brook_farm.html). At Brook Farm, Hawthorne worked, as he describes in a letter, like "a complete farmer",
noting that "I have already assisted to load twenty or thirty carts of manure, and shall take part in loading nearly three hundred more. Besides, I have planted potatoes and
peas, cut straw and hay for the cattle, and done various other mighty works. This very morning, I milked three cows; and I milk two or three every night and
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