Another and far more important reason than the delivery of a pair of embroidered gloves impelled Hester, at this time, to seek an interview with a personage of so much power and activity in the affairs of the settlement. It had reached her ears, that there was a design on the part of some of the leading inhabitants, cherishing the more rigid order of principles in religion and government, to deprive her of her child. On the supposition that Pearl, as already hinted, was of demon origin, these good people not unreasonably argued that a Christian interest in the mother’s soul required them to remove such a stumbling-block from her path. If the child, on the other hand, were really capable of moral and religious growth, and possessed the elements of ultimate salvation, then, surely, it would enjoy all the fairer prospect of these advantages by being transferred to wiser and better guardianship than Hester Prynne’s.
The dark Romanticism is expressed through the words talking about the Christian interest and the mother's soul. The world soul carries much importance, and it says that the soul is a kind of savior or "guardian" of the feelings of child, thus the feelings of someone and the emotions can set the future of a certain individual. Because Dark Romanticism often neglects logic, if often focuses on the nature of human kinds and the different supernatural entities that we tend to believe in, hence religion. It goes on to talk about how we are possessed with morals grown from religion and our souls, thus leading us to believe that it is related to Romanticism in the respect that we face our emotions rather than our minds. It also is reasonable to argue that it is related to the literal "darkness" of this type of writing as the religion at the time had much relevance to the crucification of Jesus and the sacrifices we make (stated as salvation and elements possessed in people).
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