Stark Romanticism

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…repentance from sin. Roles swap, as nature affirms virtue instead of an origin for evil. Truly, Puritan and Romantic outlooks contrast greatly. Romantics view the world as a source for good, while Puritans consider it a struggle against evil. The collision of viewpoints provides an interesting twist as Hawthorne reinvents Puritan life within the realm of the nineteenth-century. Defiantly, The Scarlet Letter would have been told in a different manner two-hundred years before its publishing.