The age of Romanticism is viewed by many as a liberating time period where multitudes worldwide could explore different lifestyles contrary to Old World’s dogmatic beliefs. However, the dismissing of the absolute, the objective, and universal for their opposition, the relative, the subjective, and particular is nothing more than moral bankruptcy. Choosing the latter is a tempting lifestyle choice for many because one no longer has to answer to a Higher power; You are the higher power. If logical reasoning is discarded and replaced with emotional reasoning then a person can do whatever feels good to them or seems right at the moment.
This segues effortlessly into the rejection of order and good judgment in exchange for accepting random, arbitrary, uncontrollable acts that are found in nature as being the guiding source for mankind’s ultimate destination. Finally, Romanticism would like everyone to be identical, equal in the sense that all people count, for if we are all the same then there is no one to answer to. No hierarchy. No responsibility except to self. Placing the self first, trusting in the emotional heart in lieu of the …show more content…
He seeks to elevate the status of self above all else by conveying the message that the punishment of one is unjust since society bears equally similar sins. His disapproval of the Puritan’s method of correcting sin is shown as he turns Hester’s humiliation from bearing the Scarlet Letter and ostracization from the town into a learned self-respect and eventual acceptance from the community that originally abandoned her. Separated and alone, Hester perseveres even though “in all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it”. Her characters individuality was exemplified despite the pious, holier-than-thou attitude of the towns attempt at transforming her into a
This segues effortlessly into the rejection of order and good judgment in exchange for accepting random, arbitrary, uncontrollable acts that are found in nature as being the guiding source for mankind’s ultimate destination. Finally, Romanticism would like everyone to be identical, equal in the sense that all people count, for if we are all the same then there is no one to answer to. No hierarchy. No responsibility except to self. Placing the self first, trusting in the emotional heart in lieu of the …show more content…
He seeks to elevate the status of self above all else by conveying the message that the punishment of one is unjust since society bears equally similar sins. His disapproval of the Puritan’s method of correcting sin is shown as he turns Hester’s humiliation from bearing the Scarlet Letter and ostracization from the town into a learned self-respect and eventual acceptance from the community that originally abandoned her. Separated and alone, Hester perseveres even though “in all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it”. Her characters individuality was exemplified despite the pious, holier-than-thou attitude of the towns attempt at transforming her into a