... rejected formalism in favor of individual responsibility. The Scarlet Letter shows some Transcendentalist influence, including a belief in individual choice and consequence, and an emphasis on symbolism. Henry David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne are different and alike in many ways. Thoreau was a man that never married and believes each man should "march to his own drum" or go his own pace ... the Transcendentalists strived to go beyond human experience or possibility. They also would try to make man perfect, and would intend to make this ideal a reality. On the other hand, Nathaniel ...

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... him more aware of sin and guilt in others, and hence opens and expands his view of life" (Jacobsen pg. 39). Sin could quite be one of the useful tools Nathaniel Hawthorne used to create such associable characters. As Gorman puts it, "The Scarlet Letter was a shadow of his own spiritual past" (Gorman pg. 144). Meaning, that ... , like many authors, are subtly hidden among the events between the interactions of specific characters. If this were slightly true, then why would Nathaniel Hawthorne begin to provide a public source for his past experiences? In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne begin...

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... poems, stories, and reviews in the Atlantic Monthly and other magazines. His biography for Abraham Lincoln earned him enough money to travel to New England and meet the great writers, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, and Walt Whitman (Edwin H., 288). Howells lived in Italy for nearly four years. He married Eleanor Mead Howells in 1862, and ... ...

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