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…showed last 75 words of 849 total…repentance from sin. Roles swap, as nature affirms virtue instead of an origin for evil. Truly, Puritan and Romantic outlooks contrast greatly. Romantics view the world as a source for good, while Puritans consider it a struggle against evil. The collision of viewpoints provides an interesting twist as Hawthorne reinvents Puritan life within the realm of the nineteenth-century. Defiantly, The Scarlet Letter would have been told in a different manner two-hundred years before its publishing.