Nathaniel Hawthorne
Title: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
And his Views on Transcendentalism Based Communities
By
Christopher Pritchard
On April 12, 1841, Nathaniel Hawthorne arrived at the Brook Farm commune in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, near Boston. The community was set up a mere ten days earlier by Dr. George Ripley, a man of the cloth hailing from nearby Boston. Ripley, a well-educated man graduating first in his class from Harvard in 1823, abandoned his beliefs in the Unitarian Orthodoxy for the new and revolutionary …
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showed last 75 words of 910 total…else. In The Blithedale Romance, Hawthorne relates what he believes to be the cause of the failure of Brook Farm. He believes that moral conversion cannot be achieved through intellectual schemes. A tragedy must be suffered.
Bibliography
Curtis, Edith Roelker. A Season in Utopia. New York: Russell and Russell, 1961.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Blithedale Romance. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1958.
Male, Roy R. Hawthornes Tragic Vision. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1957.
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