The Anti-Puritan Way Of Life

During the Romantics time, people were very anti-Puritan and all for a new way of life. They were all tired of such strict rules and wanted to have more freedom. Americans were starting to realize how awful it was to live during Puritan times and they knew they wanted something else. This anti-Puritanism time was a turning point in American literature and American society. Many people wanted to get away from the Puritan way of life to establish America as it’s own country, and not just a replication of England. Their anti-Puritan argument is a very good way of expressing how they felt and changing the parts of their culture that they didn’t like.
During the Puritan times, there were so many rules and everything was very strict. In The Scarlet Letter, which was written during the Romantics, Nathaniel Hawthorne expresses his dislike for Puritanism and shows what it was like to be somebody who had done something wrong during that time. Hester Prynne commits a sin and she is treated horribly. This shows how strict the Puritan time was, and how closely they followed the Bible.
In the Romantics period, instead of believing only in the Bible,
Edgar Allan Poe wrote many poems about death, and showed different ways that death could be viewed. The Puritans didn’t talk about death. They believed that you lived out your life on Earth to the best of your ability and then you died. During the Romantics, poets started thinking about death, how to cope with it, and different ways death affects people. Emily Dickinson also wrote multiple poems about death, but her poems were very different from Poe’s. She wrote about death like Poe, but Poe wrote about it with a very dark tone and made death seem scarier and more eery. Dickinson wrote about death in many different tones. She did not always talk about death as something to fear, but as something that will happen eventually, and something to accept and