... for his great talent in revealing his beliefs of anti-Transcendentalism in The Scarlet Letter creatively. These themes include his love of the destructive human nature and experimentation of questioning the standard instead of the Transcendentalist worship of natural instinct. Because The Scarlet Letter is based on a concept of his own, his writing, although still unpolished, it is developed better in plot, setting and character in this novel. This ... style of his writing is much more useful in portraying his moral idea. Well thought and splendidly created, The Scarlet Letter made use ...

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... humans, contained dark places that the cold light of reason alone could not break through. Relating directly to allegories is Hawthorne's use of symbolism in his stories. This is very evident in The Scarlet Letter where he uses setting and characterization to create an image of the various characters who each symbolize a different human trait. The Minister's Black Veil is the first ... of Hawthorne's stories in which the confrontation of a central symbol generates a principle of dramatic coherence and organization. The story is primarily about the effects and meaning ... of the devil. T...

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