... a symbol of the reforms in Brook Farm*, West Roxbury, Massachusetts. It was a "utopian" community, where Transcendentalists used to gather.10 In the text, Hawthorne pictures a garden not like ordinary ones. He presents Nature, which is supposed to be a place for soul's revival to the romantics, as a place of poison and death. Nevertheless, those horrifying attributes are due to man ... the pure nature of women, and that the evil comes from men's intrusion into their life. This idea led him to doubt his worthiness to be Sophia's companion. From the analysis above, we come to understand t...

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