The Error of Jollity and Gloom
Thesis: In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Maypole of Merry Mount,” Edith and Edgar represent I. Edith and Edgar realize that foolish jollity is naïve. A. The Lord and Lady of the May learn to love truly. B. The Lord and Lady learn that the focus of life is more than simple pleasures. II. Edith and Edgar realize that pessimistic gloom is dispensable. A. The Lord and Lady see Endicott softened. B. The Lord and Lady understand that the focus of life is more than sin. III. Edith and Edgar realize that life is neither all jollity nor all gloom. A. The Lord and Lady are able to bring joy to the Puritans. B. The Lord and Lady have no desire to return to the forest. The American Romantic Age of literature, where authors focus on emotions, was a reaction against the Neoclassic Age of literature, where authors focused on rational thought. The Romantics began writing about the individual and nature by focusing on imaginative literature that uses distant settings, in time and space. “The Maypole of Merry Mount,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, contains many of these attributes which classif
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Approximate Word count = 1548
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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