1. Nathaniel Hawthorne
The major reason that Hawthorne was an Anti-Transcendentalist was that, haunted by the cruelty and intolerance of his Puritan ancestors, Hawthorne viewed evil as one of the dominant forces in the world. Some of that evil is portrayed in his stories by his use of allegories -- characters, settings, and events that have a symbolic meaning. ... The Minister's Black Veil is the first of Hawthorne's stories in which the confrontation of a central symbol generates a principle of dramatic coherence and organization. ... The main purpose of this narrative tale is to move the protagonist towa...
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