Romantics (vs. the Puritans)

The Romantics was from 1830-1870(ish)
They focused on intution, imagination, individualism, and nature.  Nature was their inspiration, the past was their wisdom, and the common man is their hero.  The Romantics wanted to embrace the spiritual root that was planted by the Purtians, and combine it with nature (the Romantics find God in nature).  The Puritans wanted nothing to do with this, they repented this idea and believed that nature was savage.

Hawthorne would have felt the same way all the Romantics felt about the Puritans.  They completely clashed ideas.  The Puritans believed that no matter what you did throughout your lifetime, it was predetermined whether you were going to Heaven, or to Hell and that was God's choice to make.  However, since Hawthorne and the Romantics deeply believed in individualism, they most likely did not agree with God deciding where you were headed after death.  Even the basic beliefs of the Purtians and Romantics were conflicting, because the Puritans believed in God and promoting their religion, while the Romantics stressed on imagination.