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    Nathaniel Hawthorne uses romanticism to portray the human soul under extreme pressures. Romanticism emphasizes individuality‚ imagination to discover truth‚ and values intuition over reason. Then‚ Romanticism branches out into Dark Romanticism‚ which embodies horrific themes‚ presents that individuals are prone to sin and self-destruction‚ affected psychologically from sin and guilt. In “The Scarlet Letter”‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne employs elements of romanticism and symbolism to communicate the idea

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    The main theme of Emerson’s essay‚ “Nature” is the unity of man and nature with God. This ideology is called transcendentalism and branches from the theme of the relationship between man and nature. One of four major characteristics of transcendentalism shown within Emerson’s essay is that an individual is the spiritual center of the universe and in an individual the clue to nature can be found. Emerson is of the view that nature gives a human being so much; the sun‚ the trees‚ place to live. When

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    few topical inconsistencies‚ including Tom’s Romanticism versus Huck’s Realism. The Romantic

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    solitude‚ from going into the winter‚ then as spring hits‚ to the end of his live at his tiny house and how great the wild was out there by himself with no one else around in the woods near the town he lived by. he talks about transcendentalism. He uses transcendentalism to bring out the live of living in the wilderness and how easy and free it is. Thoreau talked about how each season that he lived through gave his tiny house and the wilderness a different feel even though there was cracks

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    nor deteriorate the good name of the just nation that is home‚ but moreover poses as an influence for what is better accepted by humans as lawful. Rosa Parks‚ a prominent female figure noted for her courageousness in standing up for African Americans in the fight to end racial segregation‚ brought upon civil disobedience through her brave

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    against the grain of society who then succumbed to mother nature‚ in Jon Krakauer’s novel “Into the Wild”. Many of those readers would have considered Chris dumb and ignorant‚ but I see Chris as following his beliefs with those beliefs relating to Transcendentalism. To start‚ Chris comes from an affluent neighborhood with his need not being money or lodging. Instead he strives to find something more than just the suburbs. Emerson said‚ “In the wilderness‚ I find something more dear and connate

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    Romanticism in The Scarlet Letter “The Scarlet Letter” written by Nathaniel Hawthorn is a book about a woman named Hester Prynne and her life after she is found guilty of committing adultery. Hawthorn uses romanticism throughout his novel often using symbols‚ fanciful objects and nature. The scarlet A‚ Hester’s daughter pearl and the rose bush are all examples of this. The scarlet A is first described to the reader in Chapter Two. It is very extravagant and decorative despite its purpose; which

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    Realism and romanticism have been writing styles that have been going on for centuries. Realism sprouted from romanticism around the late 1800s when people grew tired relating to the romanticisms “fairy tale” nature. People wanted a fake character going through many things they did on a daily basis. Edna and Hester represent each of these. Hester represents romanticism while Edna represents realism. Both of the characters are women in later times that go through the hardships close to their era.

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    Romanticism is known as a movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that distinguished literature‚ art‚ politics‚ and philosophy from the previous period‚ before the Industrial Revolution. The term is complicated to clearly define beyond the basic sense‚ but by analyzing the characteristics of the movement and what scholars conclude about it‚ a definition can be offered. Characteristics and themes that are consistently seen in the literature of the suggested period include: individualism

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    Like “Nature” there are many recurring themes of Transcendentalism in Henry David Thoreau’s piece “Walden”. In this story Thoreau begins by explaining why he went into nature. He left society to avoid consistency and to learn things about himself from nature. He wished to simplify his life to the bare minimum and to discover the only things that he needed in his life to survive. He says “Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers… and lump

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