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A 7 page paper which discusses the elements of
romanticism found in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter." Bibliography lists 10
additional sources.
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the Salem witchcraft trials)," and "tended toward the dark, Gothic side of the Romantic imagination" (Strickland hawth.htm). While his works possessed a great deal of focus on the Puritan people
and the Puritan lifestyle, his works were primarily romantic. One work, "The Scarlet Letter," illustrates this particular romantic approach in many ways. According to one author, "The Scarlet Letter is
Hawthornes masterpiece and his most profound exploration of sin, alienation, and spiritual regeneration. The novel traces the effects--social, moral, psychological, and spiritual--of Hester Prynnes adulterous relationship with the Reverend Arthur
Dimmesdale on four people: the lovers themselves, their daughter Pearl, and Roger Chillingworth, Hesters husband," presenting us with a truly romantic approach to the conditions of society (Anonymous The
Scarlet Letter 793). In the following paper we examine the work of Hawthorne as it offers up perspectives relating to Romanticism. Romanticism It should be understood that Romanticism
is often thought to be literature that is deemed "romantic" in the modern perspective, talking of that mystical romance between men and women. But, Romanticism is not this type of
romance. "Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of as romantic, although love may occasionally be the subject of Romantic art. Rather, it is an international artistic
and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world (Anonymous Introduction to Romanticism rom.html). This is very important
to note when examining Hawthornes work, which does have common "romance" but is also a story which delves into the subjects specific to Romanticism. In the following we present a
list of what makes, or constitutes, Romanticism: "love of nature, intense passion(which they declared part of "naturalness") , frequently self-glorification, imagination, commitment to impulse, individuality, freedom, and an interest in
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