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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne are similar in their styles of writing. Emerson is 100% Transcendentalist, while Hawthorne is only half-n-half. Nathaniel Hawthorne is haunted by his ancestral past because his ancestors were involved in prosecuting the “witches” in Salem Massachusetts, in the 1690s. He took shame upon himself in order to dispel the family curse. Hawthorne spent several months at Brook Farm, a Utopian community founded by the Transcendentalists. There he met and married one of the biggest advocates of the Transcendental philosophy, Sophia Peabody. Ralph Emerson, on the other hand, was one of the founders of the Transcendental philosophy. He advocated self-reliance, self-trust, and individualism, which formed the basis of the philosophy. While he wrote, he also took up special causes, like the abolition of slavery and reforms in education, labor, suffrage, and women’s rights. Many people doubted his philosophy, because it failed to account for the presence of evil in the world. The 2 authors were similar in some cases, and far apart in others. Three main points compared and contrasted are the themes of the works, both authors Transcendental philosophies, and the setting of each work.
There are many themes in Emerson and Hawthorne’s stories. One common theme that they both share is the theme of individualism. “Insist on yourself; never imitate. (“Maxims of Emerson”, 205)”. This means that you should never put the needs of society over your own needs, because everyone is looking out for only 1 person. A similar but different quote is in Young Goodman Brown.
“On Sabbath Day when the congregation were singing a holy psalm, he could not listen because an anthem of sin rushed loudly upon his eat and drowned all the blessed strain (“Goodman Brown”, 244)”
This is not as concrete as Emerson’s writing, but it has a deeper meaning almost the same. Goodman Brown is the only man who feels guilty for having sinned, but everyone...
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