... radical) essay. As a result of its deviant nature, however, the essay was largely ignored by the public. Both Thoreau and Hawthorne illustrate this social deviance and society's intolerance of it, a reoccurring theme in the Puritan world of the 1600s and an inevitable result of the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-1800s. In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, the Puritan community of Boston essentially ... ...

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