Elements of Transcendentalism and Anti-Transcendentalism in "The Scarlet Letter"

Elements of Transcendentalism and Anti-Transcendentalism in "The Scarlet Letter" :

The scarlet letter is the best novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the novel he talk about the mindset of puritan society and the condition of women in puritan society. At the time when most novelists focused on the outside world, Hawthorne dwelled deeply in the innermost, hidden emotional and mental psyches of his characters. In the novel we can find many thems such as Sin, crime and punishment, feminism, polices, sociocultural aspects and socio-religious aspects etc.
The Scarlet Letter contains both transcendentalist and anti-transcendentalist views and ways of life organizing around the central theme of sin. Hester’s sin is her adultery with Dimmesdale, which produces her child Pearl. The basic premises of transcendentalism depicted in the novel include beliefs in self-confidence and self-reliance, in transforming or changing for the better, in individual worth and dignity of manual labor, in innate goodness of people, in the benefits of living close to nature, and in the fact that truth is acquired through intuition, not reason nor logic.

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