Thinking activity on Scarlet Letter : Transcendenalist and Anti-Transcendentalism elements in the novel
Transcendentalist and Anti-Transcendentalist elements from in "The Scarlet Letter" "The Scarlet Letter" This famed historical fiction novel was published in 1850 by Nathaniel Hawthrone. Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne who conceives a daughter through an affair and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity . The book explores themes of legalism , sin , and guilt . (Wikipedia). This novel contains both transcendentalist and anti-transcendentalist views which centred around the centre theme of the novel. What is Transedentalism? Transcendentalism began as a religious concept rooted in the ideas of American democracy. It is a Philosophical movement which developed in the 1830s and 1840s in the eastern religion of the united States as a protest to the general state of cultural and society. The Romantic Movement gave rise to t