Anti-Transcendentalism, Nathaniel Hawthorne, who many of his novels (or “romances,” to him) were dark, twisted but held a shimmer of light and hope within them. A particular novel, one of which is considered a great piece of American Romantic literature, The Scarlet Letter, due to its story line being set in the remote past of the Puritan era, focuses on the strict laws of the Puritan society and the battle for love, happiness, and acceptance in an anti-Puritan situation. Throughout the novel it
a loner and a writer. Originally, this was his draw to the Brooks Farm community where he was first introduced to transcendentalism. Here he began to be influenced by the thoughts of others, and eventually even his own wife, Sophia Peabody, who was a transcendentalist herself. Transcendentalism is simply a belief, a practice, a religion, or a passage way to freedom. Transcendentalism is an escape from the world, and a guide into discovering oneself on a greater scale. However this channel to personal
In such stories as Darna, Dyesebel, Petrang Kabayo. Gzptain Universe, the imagination is allowed to roam freely. The anti- realistic design is strongly projected, affirming the impossibility of establishing a one-to-one correspondence between the narrative and reality. The komiks become a signifier pointing only to itself as the signified reality, and not to anything