ENG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Scarlet Letter, American Authors, Capitalism
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He is seeking a deeper kind of truth. Seeking to tell us something about american origin. Interested in discovering or telling us about a mythic or moral truth. Defining the public and the private what is the relationship between them, what is the public significance of private lives. Women a beautiful young woman that stand for, represents, an idea of. Romantic individual self: rejects established norms and conventions or has been rejected by society, is the center of romantic individuals existence, triumphs over theological strengths and social conventions, often alienated. 1850-1855: incredible explosion of major american works (the american. During hawthorn"s adulthood, the us appeared harmonious but also appeared to have a lot of conflicts internally. Mostly they were of the same ethnic background, lived mostly between. Mississippi river and atlanta on the east, lived mostly on farms, shared an agrarian free enterprise, largely egalitarian values, and they tempered their individualism with a strong sense of community balance.
