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romanticism in "The Minister's Black Veil"
Title: romanticism in "The Minister's Black Veil"
Category: Literature / English
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romanticism in "The Minister's Black Veil"
“Romanticism was a literary and artistic movement of the nineteenth-century that arose in reaction against eighteenth-century Neoclassicism…” It indicated that there were no objective values that needed to be accepted by everyone. It also suggested that the mind could not know reality as it truly was. It is only interpreted according to the mind’s own interests. Romanticism was said to be “the search for a world that is not”. Nathaniel Hawthorne expressed romanticism in …showed first 75 words of 437 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 437 total…felt as though “preternatural horror was interwoven with the threads of the black crape”. He would never pass a mirror or drink from a fountain because of his own repugnance.
In addition to emotion and the supernatural, romantic writers had a grave interest for mystery. Hawthorne’s basis of “The Minister’s Black Veil” was mystery. Men, women, and children did not understand the purpose for this gloomy shade over Mr. Hooper’s face.
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