Explore how Hawthorne (super romantic) would feel about the Puritan based on what you learned today.
Hawthorn would not agree with the Puritan beliefs. Hawthorn believes in the ideas of intuition, imagination, and individualism. The romantics were based on individuals expressing themselves as an individual person rather than a group of people following the same beliefs. This conflicts with the Puritan beliefs because they believed that god determined your fate before the individual was born an there was no way to change whether you were going to hell or heaven. Even if an individual lived their life doing good deeds, if god decided they were going to hell, that is where they would go. Hawthorn wouldn't agree with this because as an individual you determine your own fate, while god determined what lies in the fate of the Puritans.
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