In the pre-civilized New World, Puritans, not yet adjusted to the new freedoms after fleeing from the religious tyranny of European civilization, chastised any wrongdoer to their faith. Their extremist ideology caused them to harm those who believed anything other than strict Puritan views, ripping families apart, murdering the innocent, and thus sparking the intent of many authors to write about their grim character. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Maypole of Merry Mount” singles out the false intentions of both the puritans and pagans through the use of symbolism to further exemplify the main themes of unintended purpose in his allegory of life’s marriage of contrasting idealism. Hawthorne’s main strategy for hinting pure character was to socialize colors with whomever or whatever needed to be deeper understood. Bright colors were used to symbolize the pure, the happy, or those associated with the general mirth of the pagans, such as the maypole, the flowers, or the pagans by dress; dark colors or gloomy tones were given to anything puritan or against the mirth of the pagans, resulting in the negatively connotated elements of the puritans and the forest. Edgar and Edith are both dressed in flowers and bright nature, the most out of anyone, to communicate to the reader the tradition of marriage. Their bright embroidery contrasts greatly against their dark hair, a trait not given to any other pagan and only stated moments before their insightful worry, in effect foreshadowing the less-than-pure fate which is to be fulfilled later on in the story. Continuing through the passage, the Lord and Lady’s “youthful [beautiful] glow” seemed to both literally and emotionally lighten the puritans. Endicott, once noticing their brilliant love for one another, not even “the deepening twilight could altogether conceal that [he] was softened.” Endicott not only gave Edgar and Edith lighter charges than the rest of the pagans, but he also turned them into puritans, without any resistance from them, proving their non-pagan-like dark hair foreshadowing at work. Helping the indicidant play evolve is the role of the weather. Hawthorne puts the weather to use as a symbol of the overall tone in the story to further progress the foreshadowing occurrences that might detail the characters actions or thoughts/moods at the time being. As the story was set up, a midsummer eve is thought to be a peaceful time, especially whenever filled with dance, family, and mirth, but the outlook of an evening is that it can only grow darker. Hawthorne’s use of bright colors to show character is fit in with the concept of lighting to show mood. As the evening carries on, more darkness approaches from the forest, foreshadowing the inevitable doom of the settlers of mirth. After the puritans invade, “the evening sky grew darker, and the woods threw forth a more sombre shadow,” only to outline the grim intentions that lie further ahead. As the story continues to evolve, Hawthorne writes that the glow of the lovers exceeds through the darkness of the dusk, symbolizing the relationship between the darkness and the newlyweds to be complementary in a fashion. Without the radiance of Edgar and Edith together against the darkness of the night, against the darkness of the puritans, and against the darkness of the mood, there would be no hope in the grim shadow of their fate. Had they not shown their ultimate love and devotion, surely the weather would have correctly guessed the group’s fate. Because the sacrifice of themselves over one another had been chanced in fro