The Maypole of Merry Mount by Hawthorne

In the pre-civilized radical World, Puritans, not yet alter to the new freedoms after fleeing from the phantasmal tyranny of European civilization, chastised whatever wrongdoer to their faith. Their extremist ideology caused them to harm those who believed any(prenominal)thing other than exacting Puritan views, ripping families apart, murdering the innocent, and thusly sparking the intent of many authors to import ab step forward their grim character. Nathaniel Hawthornes The Maypole of Merry Mount single out the false intentions of twain the puritans and pagans through the use of symbol to further exemplify the main(prenominal) themes of unintended purpose in his allegory of lifes marriage of contrasting idealism.\nHawthornes main strategy for hinting arrant(a) character was to socialize colours with whomever or whatever ask to be deeper understood. Bright change were used to symbolize the pure, the happy, or those associated with the general pleasure of the pagans, such(prenominal) as the maypole, the flowers, or the pagans by dress; dark colorise or gloomy t peerlesss were tending(p) to anything puritan or against the mirth of the pagans, resulting in the negatively connotated elements of the puritans and the forest. Edgar and Edith ar both dressed in flowers and bright nature, the most out of anyone, to communicate to the reader the tradition of marriage. Their bright embroidery contrasts greatly against their dark hair, a trace not given to any other pagan and nevertheless stated moments before their insightful worry, in effect betoken the less-than-pure fate which is to be carry through later on in the story. Continuing through the passage, the noble and Ladys untried [beautiful] glow seemed to both literally and emotionally lighten the puritans. Endicott, formerly noticing their brilliant love for one another, not even the intensify twilight could altogether keep back that [he] was softened. Endicott not only gave Edgar and Edit h twinkle charges than the rest of the pagans, but he al...