Connection of the book and Transcendentalism

In Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne describes the community and their religion. The whole community fallowed the same religion and teachings. It was almost like the community was one. During the first chapter, a crowd of people from Hester’s community mocks and curses Hester. Would it be different if the community had different religions? It probably would because other religions might have a different opinion on adultery.
Transcendentalism allows one to think for himself/herself. Transcendentalists ignore the influences of others. Transcendentalists try to find themselves through nature. Nature cannot influence a human to think a certain way. Nature actually reveals what a person really feels without any thoughts that are not from him/her mind.
When the community is angry with Hester, they were all in unison. But it is not because the crowd originally had the idea that adultery was wrong. The crowd thought adultery was wrong because of the religion as I said before. This example could go both ways: transcendentalist and imperialist. The crowd was all one, all had the same thoughts and acted as one, a teaching of transcendentalism is that everything related to nature is one. This includes animals and plants. But on the other hand, the cause of the crowd having the same idea was not cause the true believed it, it was taught to them. Their teachers forced them to accept these ideas, not allowing them to question the teachings.
A key important point in Transcendentalism is nature. When Hester is pushed away from society, she goes to live in the abandoned house. The only thing that surrounded the house was woods. The self-confinement of the woods, she began to learn about herself and her thoughts. The woods is also the place where Pearl expresses herself. She runs freely with out any thought of what society would think.
Transcendentalists believe in a over-soul. Over soul is the theory that everything is connected. In Scarlet Letter the Reverend Dimmesdale was portrayed as a humble, kind man. Roger Chillingworth was portrayed as a evil man, he was also referred as the “black man”. Even though Dimmesdale and Chillingworth were very different, they were connected. Dimmesdale depended on Chillingworth to help him live. Soon they grew a relationship, which is the connection.
A over soul connection is also found when Chillingworth and Dimmesdale were walking and come across a grave. On the grave was a black weed. Chillingworth says that the weed grows from the man’s body, actually from the man’s sin. This is an example that man, or man’s emotions, transform into plant.
In Scarlet Letter, the characters believe in the supernatural. When a red A appears in the sky, the people believe it is an angel sending a message. Transcendentalist believed that the supernatural exist as well. Transcendentalists saw the world split in two. One side was God, spirits, and over-soul. The other side was humans, animals, and nature. Transcendentalist saw the supernatural side superior to the human/nature side. The transcendentalist had no proof of its existence, but transcendentalist were open to theories because they felt that they should speak freely.