How did literature and popular culture respond to the changes in American society?
What will be an ideal response?
Literature and popular culture responded differently to these changes. Many writers, such as Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Melville, responded critically to the market revolution. In Walden, Thoreau wrote about attempting to escape conformity and worldly values and return to nature. Many of Hawthorne's novels and stories parodied the utopian movements of the time and also exposed the hypocrisy of revivalism in the context of the market revolution. Melville also searched for meaning within a restrictive economic system in his epic novel, Moby-Dick, and in many of his stories.
In contrast, many elements of popular culture, such as the board game "The Mansion of Happiness," embraced and encouraged the changes and reforms in American society. In this game, players moved forward by landing on spaces marked with desirable traits like "temperance" and "piety," and moved backward by landing on spaces marked with undesirable traits like "idleness." This system of reward and punishment reflected the rewards and punishments one would receive in life for displaying such traits, thereby reinforcing the religious and family ideals of the time, ideals that supported success in the market revolution.
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What will be an ideal response?
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