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     "The penalty thereof is death. But in their great mercy and tenderness of heart, they have doomed Mistress Prynne to stand only a space of three hours on the platform of pillory, and then and thereafter, for the remainder of her natural life, to wear a mark of shame upon her bosom" (Hawthorne 54). This quote is another example of a writing of the American Romanticism period. Society is isolating and branding Prynne by making her stand on  a platform and by wearing the letter "A" on her chest. At that time, this punishment was considered to be equivilent or even worse then death. 

     The Scarlet Letter was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and includes many features of American Romanticism in it. One example would be the the vivid description of the prison door. "The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than any thing else in the new world" (Hawthorne 41). The writers diction creates a clear image of the door in the readers head. The door is described as old and gloomy, one could describe it as gothic which fits into the American Romanticism period.