Explore how Hawthorne (super Romantic) would feel about the Puritans based on what you learned today.
Hawthorne would not agree with the Puritans. He would not have the same ideas that they so because he believed in individualism, imagination and intuition. These beliefs were the opposite of what the puritans believed in. Instead the puritans focused on how God had a predetermined fate for you, before you were born, and that there wasn't anything that you could do in your life to change that. This caused the puritans to obsess about anything that they did,not knowing whether you were going to heaven or hell. These two beliefs contradict one another because one is saying to be your own person and the other is forcing you to do what everyone else is doing.
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