Blithedale

Blithedale was novel created by Nathaniel Hawthorne, though considered fiction, was parallel in many ways to his experience at Brook Farm. The story centered on the Transcendental movement. The characters came to life by their twisted pasts which left them in the midst of turmoil, including love lost and won. The story began with everyone willing to give up everything for the transcendental movement and ended with underlying selfish human characteristics that overcame their original purpose.