Nathaniel Hawthorne is associated with the “anti-transcendentalists.” The following are a few of the reasons that would lead me to believe that he does, in fact, fall under this category. First of all, anti-transcendentalism believed that the transcendentalists’ point of view was too positive. They also believed that the works of these authors didn’t look very closely at the evil in the world. Whereas, anti-transcendentalists focused on the existence of sin and evil; therefore, their works were very dark. They viewed Nature as both a good and a bad thing. They believed that it had both a good and a bad side. Nature reflected all that was paradoxical and unexp
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