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Essay Archive - The Scarlet Letter: Use of Romanticism in Development of Characters
The Scarlet Letter: Use of Romanticism in Development of Characters
In Hawthorne's revered novel The Scarlet Letter, the use of
Romanticism plays an important role in the development of his characters.
He effectively demonstrates individualism in Hester to further our
understanding of the difficulties of living in Boston, the stern, joyless
world of Puritan New England. It is all gloom and doom. If the sun ever
shines, one could hardly notice. The entire place seems to be shrouded in
black. Th....
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