Romanticism in Scarlet Letter, Ministers Black Veil, and Young Goodma

American Romanticism in The Scarlet earn, The Ministers Black Veil, and juvenile Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne took elements of the European romanticism and reshaped them into a new literary straining that is called American Romanticism. The American Romanticists created a form that, at first glance, seems quaint and traditional they borrowed from classical romance, adapted pastoral themes and incorporated Gothic elements (Reuben 22). virtually of the definable elements of romanticism combined with the Gothic including the crossing of some terminus ad quem or a taboo broken (Crow 1), the emotional response of enjoyment and pain that the reader experiences and the mixing of good and evil to form a flawed hero. Hawthorne developed a literature of shadows and moonlight to questions what is real and make up (Crow, 106). Examining Hawthornes writings in the works of The Scarlet Letter, The Ministers Black Veil, and early days Goodman Brown exemplifies American Romanticism a t its best. Hawthorne used extensive hold and his own innate knowledge from his own family history to examine the modernistic England Puritan to give the reader an accurate picture of seventeenth one C life. In the introduction to The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne describes his ancestor as a soldier, legislator, judge he was a ruler in the Church he had all the Puritanical traits, both good and evil. He was likewise a bitter persecutor (Scarlet Letter 89). The women waiting for Hester to emerge from prison formulate the sentence of the A not harsh enough. they should have put the stake of a hot iron on Hester Prynnes forehead (Scarlet Letter 114). The people used their severe beliefs to ward off any working of the devil among there midst through t... ...Heath Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter. newfangled York Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998. 2207-2216. ---The Scarlet Letter. The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ed. Norman Holmes Pearson. New York Random House, 1937. 81-240. Melville, Herman. Hawthorne and His Mosses. Literary World. 17 and 24 Aug. 1850. Pearson, Norman Holmes. Introduction. The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne. By Pearson. New York Random House, 1937. vii-xv. Poe, Edgar Allan. Tale-Writing. Rev. of Twice-Told Tales and Mosses From An venerable Manse. Godeys Ladys Book. Nov. 1847 252-256. Reuben, Paul P. Chapter 3 Early 19th Century Romanticism An Introduction PAL Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. 1-38. http//www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/hawthorne