Romantic Mottifs present in the Scarlet Letter

The different periods of writing all have unique styles. The Romantic period had themes
of returning to nature, mistrust in science, trust in instincts, interest in the supernatural, and Transcendentalist teachings. Most of the novels written during the Romantic period portray these reoccurring themes. The novel The Scarlet Letter is indeed a Romantic novel if one looks at and considers the characters, settings, and moral connection presented.
Hawthorn cleverly presented his Romantic ideals through his characters by creating the two sharply contrasting characters of Pearl and Roger Chillingworth. Pearl, the daughter of Hester Pryne, encompassed all the characteristics of a person that Romantics felt like one should have. Romantics felt like one had a certain intuition about things. Pearl possessed this intuition and demonstrated it by somehow having this innate knowledge that Dimmesdale is indeed her father and should have stood on the scaffold with her and her mother. ...