Hawthorne and Poe’s Pessimistic Views on Society - 1326 Words

The way we read and interpret a novel lies within the novel itself, so is the literature that generates the criticism. The most commonly thing between the transcendentalists and anti-transcendentalists is the association of the society and the people themselves. Despite anti-transcendentalists who represent the consequences of personal isolation, transcendentalists tend to manifest in their writings the personal freedom from the isolation of the social associations. Basically what they believed was that any person was greater and more powerful than any other institution. Nathaniel Hawthorne in his novel â€Å"The Minister’s Black Veil† chooses a Puritan minister, Mr. Hooper to withdraw from everything pleasant in his life, and to be much more a†¦show more content†¦One fact about Poe is that he writes in the first person, whether as Hawthorne writes in the third person, and this is one of their differences as dark-romanticists. Poe uses the first-person narrati on in order to make the reader be more comfortable with his characters and more likely to feel and live what the protagonists in the story are feeling. Hawthorne with his third person narration storytelling tries to involve all of us in his ideas. He wants us to see inside our selves, to compare ourselves with the protagonist in his stories. Hawthorne themes are the focus of evil, human sins associated by the inspiration of human freedom and a host of psychological situations of the characters. â€Å"The Minister’s Black Veil† is a story for a typical Puritan setting. It is noted a clarified Calvinism as a maturity religion sort of wove into the story as we go along. It is in fact about a minister, Mr. Hooper, in a small town and this measure one day shows up for his congregation in a black veil. â€Å"Mr. Hooper had the reputation of a good preacher, but not an energetic one: he strove to win his people heavenward by mild, persuasive influences, rather than to drive them thither by the thunders of the Word.† (Hawthorne) The black veil is what keeps the minister out of the social world he lives in. It is a little unusual for a minister to be wearing something like that, but there is a reason for it, and