In the course of history, multitudes of people are inspired by their time period and environment over different subjects and controversies, to the point of their circumstances during their lives. With our case being with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil”, found in the collection Twice-Told Tales, the Puritan faith was a prominent factor in Hawthorne’s writings through his lifetime during the early to the late mid-19th century. With the concept of Dark Romanticism, Hawthorne wrote this work on the basis of criticizing aspects of the Puritan based on his own association and experiences, but does not denounce the faith completely however. In the case of his Puritan based works, much of the focus is religious based, as Puritan
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Before the time Hawthorne was born in his home in Salem, Massachusetts (Martin) the religious fervor of the Puritan faith was diminished while the colony continued to survive with blame placed upon multiple cases of increased sin (“God in America People & Ideas: The Puritans”) though scholars still debate over whatever the true cause was. Besides all this, his Puritan background was still a prominent part of his writings, along with the fact that some of his ancestors were involved with religious persecution, including a John Hathorne who was one of the judges during the Salem Witch Trials (Hawkins and Houston) whom he tries to distance himself by changing Hathorne to Hawthorne. Furthermore, his work takes place during the time of Dark Romanticism that followed from Transcendental philosophies in which he uses to the point of becoming a notable major author of Dark Romanticism (“Dark romanticism”). In distancing himself from some of the persecution that his ancestors were part of, Hawthorne takes into account of having very close ties of the Transcendental movement but has written anti-transcendental works after living the Brook Farm Transcendental Utopian commune that seemed to rattle his connection with the movement afterward (“Dark romanticism”). Moreover, in the case of
Before the time Hawthorne was born in his home in Salem, Massachusetts (Martin) the religious fervor of the Puritan faith was diminished while the colony continued to survive with blame placed upon multiple cases of increased sin (“God in America People & Ideas: The Puritans”) though scholars still debate over whatever the true cause was. Besides all this, his Puritan background was still a prominent part of his writings, along with the fact that some of his ancestors were involved with religious persecution, including a John Hathorne who was one of the judges during the Salem Witch Trials (Hawkins and Houston) whom he tries to distance himself by changing Hathorne to Hawthorne. Furthermore, his work takes place during the time of Dark Romanticism that followed from Transcendental philosophies in which he uses to the point of becoming a notable major author of Dark Romanticism (“Dark romanticism”). In distancing himself from some of the persecution that his ancestors were part of, Hawthorne takes into account of having very close ties of the Transcendental movement but has written anti-transcendental works after living the Brook Farm Transcendental Utopian commune that seemed to rattle his connection with the movement afterward (“Dark romanticism”). Moreover, in the case of