Transcendentalists
believed in the divinity of nature. Many, like Ralph Waldo Emerson, thought that when we are in
nature, something very special happens to us. We return to a childlike state of innocence, and,
at the same time, we are restored to both reason and faith. Many believed in something called
the Oversoul, which was a trinity of sorts consisting of humankind, nature, and God. They
thought that connecting with nature would bring us closer to God and help us to understand
ourselves better.
In "," however, nature is not a good and blessed
thing, made by God, with the power to restore and revive us; instead, it is something corrupt
and poisonous, made by man, having the power to weaken and destroy us. Hawthorne presents a very
different view of what nature can be, especially when meddled with by humans. It becomes
destructive and menacing.
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