The Maypole of Merry Mount by Hawthorne

In the pre-civilized New World, prudes, not yet adjusted to the red-hot freedoms after fleeing from the religious tyranny of European civilization, chastised any wrongdoer to their faith. Their extremist ideology ca apply them to suffering those who believed anything otherwise than strict Puritan views, ripping families apart, murdering the innocent, and thus sparking the life of many authors to write just ab come out of the closet their grim fictional character. Nathaniel Hawthornes The Maypole of risible Mount singles out the false intentions of both the puritans and pagans through and through the use of symbolism to come along exemplify the main(prenominal) themes of accidental purpose in his legend of lifes wedding of contrasting idealism.\nHawthornes main strategy for hinting pure character was to socialize colors with whomever or whatever needed to be deeper understood. Bright colors were used to symbolize the pure, the happy, or those associated with the popular mirth of the pagans, such as the maypole, the flowers, or the pagans by clothing; vague colors or gloomy tones were given to anything puritan or against the mirth of the pagans, resulting in the negatively connotated elements of the puritans and the fo consist. Edgar and Edith are both dressed in flowers and lifelike nature, the most out of anyone, to extend to the reader the tradition of marriage. Their lambent embroidery contrasts greatly against their dark hair, a trait not given to any other pagan and only verbalise moments before their insightful worry, in effect foreshadowing the less-than-pure specify which is to be fulfilled by and by on in the story. go on through the passage, the Lord and noblewomans youthful [beautiful] gleaming seemed to both literally and emotionally lighten the puritans. Endicott, once noticing their magnificent love for one another, not even the deepening crepuscle could altogether conceal that [he] was softened. Endicott not only gave Edg ar and Edith lighter charges than the rest of the pagans, but he al...