How does Hawthorne's Transcendentalism affect The Scarlet Letter?

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contemporary of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, founders of the Transcendental
movement,associated with them, perhaps, in an effort to discover more meaning behind the shadows
of life that he so often perceived. A movement in the Romantic tradition, Transcendentalism
holds that every individual can reach ultimate truths through reason and sensory experience.
Here are its basic tenets:

1. In every aspect of Nature, God is
   present--even in every human being.
2. Everyone is capable of learning about
   God through intuition.
3. In all its manifestations, Nature is symbolic of...