... "The Devil and Tom Walker-, "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls-, "A Psalm of Life-, "Self-Reliance-, "Civil Disobedience- and Walden demonstrate this influence. Both Romanticism and Transcendentalism involve idealism; worth of the individual and democracy are alike in their correspondence; love of nature is consonantly observable; interest in the past and exotic antagonistically relates to ... Falls- by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. "The little waves, with their soft, white hands,/Efface the footprints in the sands-. The beach is illustrated as a paradisiacal place. Romanticism encompasses id...

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... which he has been deprived during his early life. The other symbolic character is Beatrice. She is a symbol that we may easily link to romanticism; yet, it is also a symbol that is related to the author's life. While reading Hawthorne's biographies, we have noticed a resemblance between ... , believing that it corrupts the human nature. That is why Hawthorne makes Rappaccini corrupted and deprived from humanity. In addition to that, in Romanticism there is a clash between Nature and culture. This is shown in Hawthorne's story through the description of Giovanni's room, its position comp...

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