Hawthorn and Puritan beliefs

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.

Puritans VS. Romantics

Hawthorne would have went against Puritans beliefs because they were very religious, trying to promote their religion and lived life based around their one religion. Puritans also worried over if they were going to heaven or hell based on their decision making. While Romantics believe in a life based around individualism, imagination, inspiration and freedom.

Degenerate

Seymour degenerated into a creepy pedophile as a result of coming back from the war with nobody to understand him but a two year old girl.

Romanticism can be seen as a rejection of the precepts of 
order
calm
harmony
balance
idealization
rationality 

The whole idea of Romanticism was to be free and live your own life the way you want to
Hawthorne, being a Romanticist, would have despised the Puritans as their beliefs focused around order and stress over if one will remain the after life in heaven or hell because of every decision and choice they make

Romantic Literature
-A movement where literature focused on intuition,imagination, and individualism.
-Nature was seen as a from of inspiration
-invoked the past for wisdom
-Seeing the common man as a hero
Dark Romantics
-human frailty
-fallibility
-focused on the predestination nature of the human mind towards mental illness.

Intrinsic

The puzzle pieces were intrinsic, they belonged together naturally.

Gregarious

My mother wants me to be more gregarious when we have family reunions, but they are a bit too talkative for me.