Hawthorne effect

who, after oppression from the King of England, sought to reform the Church of England from its Catholic traditions. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born to a Puritan family in 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts. From his experiences, Hawthorne explores the Puritan viewpoint of how people conform under the social expectations of a Puritan society. His parents, Nathaniel Hathorne (Hawthorne was ashamed of his ancestral history because of their involvement in the Salem Witch Trials. Consequently, he added a…

black and white, a wide variety of colors , or live in a world of a single shade of hue. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s famous work, The Scarlet Letter, is a world, complete with countless colors. Some that do recur quite a bit, is black and red/scarlet. Hawthorne continuously affiliates the color black with Roger Chillingworth, a man who develops from a kind scholar to an obsessed barbarian. Whereas, Hester, is most known for her glowing scarlet letter that she was forced to wear because of her sinful…

Some of the critics would argue that “Hawthorne [is] too painfully anatomical in his exhibition of [the characters]” (Whipple 345). However, Hawthorne’s attempt to describe one of his characters, to where it becomes painful to read, exhibits that a character is not what the reader is expecting. This goes to show that Hawthorne must not have used stereotypes. Hawthorne was very descriptive in his illustration of Hester, especially. He repeated multiple…

Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne likes to blur the lines between what is real and what is not, leaving his readers to interpret what they want from his writing. Ambiguity in Hawthorne 's novel is one way he adds a certain level of conciseness that almost every romantic story requires. He gives you the general theme without really giving away the message and that is what makes The Scarlett Letter and many of his other books intriguing to read. In The Scarlett Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne uses ambiguity…

Hester of her previous state of sin. To explain that Pearl is a positive outcome as well as a reminder of a shameful act, Hester says, “She is my happiness!—she is my torture, none the less! Pearl keeps me here in life! Pearl punishes me too!” (Hawthorne 118). Pearl's existence forces Hester to acknowledge her sin and work to come out of her shame. She is proof that accepting the past allows people to see the positive window of potential improvement. Hester, in a world of solitude, only has…

Dimmesdale needed to find a way to free himself of the guilt in order to stay healthy, but he lacked the courage to do so. In the novel, a specific time when Nathaniel Hawthorne expressed the theme of self guilt was when Dimmesdale burned the scarlet letter onto his chest. At that moment, the sufferings of his body were the expressions of…

Literature, authors have used different techniques to relay a message to the reader, one way being by depicting how the community’s influence on the protagonist shapes the protagonists’ development. In The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible, authors Hawthorne and Miller, respectively, use the social norms in Puritan society to express a common theme by portraying the positive and negative moral changes in characters. In Puritan society, individuals believed they were carrying out “God’s work”,…

Akita 1 Dallen Akita Mrs. Beaver English 101 October 10, 2015 Research Paper “The Birthmark” Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” set in 1843, tells the story of the obsession with human perfection. Georgiana, a beautiful woman in this story, has a small hand-shaped birthmark on her left cheek. However, her husband Aylmer who is a scientist, is overly obsessed with his wife’s birthmark. Eventually Georgiana comes to share the same obsession, and together Aylmer and Georgiana decide to try to…

Veil is one of the many short stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This short story takes place during the Puritan Age. The Puritan Age is when people believed that only God could create change in their hearts. They led very simple and plain lives. Hawthorne's main topic in this story is secret sin and how everyone has secret sin. Overall, Hawthorne’s The Minister’s Black Veil is a very powerful story and people should read it. Hawthorne begins his story in the Milford Meeting House on…

Hawthorne’s novel explores the two different outcomes of sin—salvation and demise. In The Scarlet Letter, Roger Chillingworth copes with a revenge that devours, Arthur Dimmesdale deals with an all-consuming guilt, and Hester struggles with the negative effects of isolation and solitude. One would think that these characters daily circumstances would steer them towards their ultimate demise; however, The Scarlet Letter shows that even the most abhorrent sinners have the capabilities to receive…