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. ... Based on both the works of Thoreau and Hawthorne, social deviance and the ensuing intolerance which follows have been prevailing themes in American literature since the beginnings of colonialism. ...

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