... Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. "The mind's eye, or the imagination, is the instrument of moral insight." Imagination is what creates moralistic intuition in the writer (Jacobsen pg. 34-33). Another example that may support morality in the production of The Scarlet Letter, as a historical document, is the study Yvor Winters claims that "Puritans had allegorical morality," as well as the characters in Hawthorne's "chief masterpiece." The ideas of symbolism are what Yvor Winters in Hawthorne, A Collection of Critical Essays ... ). Nathaniel Hawthorne tried his hardest to present Puritan so...

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