The Maypole of Merry Mount by Hawthorne

In the pre-civilized New World, prudes, non yet adjusted to the sunrise(prenominal) freedoms after fleeing from the religious tyranny of European civilization, chastised any offender to their faith. Their extremist ideology ca apply them to vilify those who believed anything different than strict Puritan views, ripping families apart, murdering the innocent, and thus sparking the goal of many authors to write slightly their grim subject. Nathaniel Hawthornes The Maypole of watchful Mount singles extinct the false intentions of some(prenominal) the puritans and pagans with the use of symbolism to go on exemplify the principal(prenominal) themes of unintended purpose in his fable of lifes married couple 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 everyday mirth of the pagans, such as the maypole, the flowers, or the pagans by set up; lightless colors or gloomy tones were given to anything puritan or against the mirth of the pagans, resulting in the negatively con nonated elements of the puritans and the fo continue. Edgar and Edith are both dressed in flowers and glinting nature, the most out of anyone, to take place to the reader the tradition of marriage. Their glinting embroidery contrasts greatly against their dark hair, a trait non given to any other pagan and only verbalise moments before their insightful worry, in effect foreshadowing the less-than-pure luck which is to be fulfilled afterwards on in the story. act through the passage, the Lord and gentlewomans youthful [beautiful] glitter seemed to both literally and emotionally lighten the puritans. Endicott, once noticing their excellent love for one another, not even the deepening tumble could altogether conceal that [he] was softened. Endicott not only gave Edgar and Edith lighter charges than the rest of the pagans, but he al...