Nathaniel Hawthorne and Puritan Culture

One of Hawthorn's best novels is "Red Letter", which presents a story of stable sad love and treachery in the context of the 17th century New England Puritans. Nathaniel Hawthorne's writer was meant to be the first American writer to explore the hidden motives of the character. His view on his idea is to show people that magic is not genuine, and that Puritans are delusive. Even if he had a Puritan lineage, he hated them passionately, he was ashamed of his grandfather and added his name to shame in his history.

"Young Goodman Brown" is a short story published by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1835. This story shows the Calvinist / Puritan belief that all human beings are in a degenerate state, done in the general scene of Puritan New England, Hawthorne's work, but God already fate to overcome obsolete It was in. Grace of unconditional election. Hawthorne often pays attention to tension in Puritan culture, but it is steep in Puritan's sin. This story tells the story of self test of Jan Goodman Brown in a symbolic way and leads him to lose his virtue and belief.

Nathaniel Hawthorne is a famous writer in the 19th century. One reason why he is well known is his view on Puritanism. Hawthorn is often criticizing Puritanism in his short stories and novels. Two short stories showing Hawthorne's puritanism are "Young Goodman Brown" and "Minister Black Veil". In "Young Goodman Brown", Hawthorne demonstrated the hypocritical nature of Puritan, using the hypocritical nature of young neighbors and friends of Goodman Browns. - "Age of Enlightenment" is also called "era of reason", it is an era of social, religious and political revolution through the 18th century, which changed the minds of humanity in this "awakening" era . Liberty of ignorant thinking, thought, action These thinking, thinking, actions are separated from ignorant views on how to maintain and adhere society, providing a new thought space for the world There.

Can I be in a room full of people, can I feel perfectly alone? This is the case of Puritan society drawn by "Red Letter", Nathaniel Hawthorne. This culture is dominated by strict and strict Puritan guidelines, and all members of society seem to be undergoing some alienation. Alienation is isolation and isolation. People also have to be severely punished in violation of these rules, if the strict rules of Puritans are not enough to make people somewhat away from this society (most people inevitably have such I followed the rules). Violators are severely punished by society and rejected. Or people will worry about themselves by concealing their sins. All of these and more are working with "red letters"