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Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem Massachusetts. Nathaniel is the only son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Hawthorne. His father, a sea captain, perished in 1808 out at sea due to yellow fever. The family was left with very poor financial support which led Elizabeth to move in with her affluent brothers. While Nathaniel was at an early age, he sustained a leg injury that left him immobile for several months. During that time, he acquired a voracious inclination for reading and set his…

human intellect, newly emancipated, had taken a more active and a wider range than for many centuries before.” Here, Nathaniel Hawthorne distinctly features the tone of his story: a sympathy and encouragement for women who must deal with society’s restrictions. Within The Scarlet Letter, which focuses on Hester Prynne, a woman ostracized from society for adultery, Hawthorne depicts 17th century Boston and the way women were treated at that time. Furthermore, from his depiction, one may notice a…

the plot takes place in an early New England colony, mid-17th century at Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was the best called name for the Puritan community of Boston in which is also part of the setting. The author Nathaniel Hawthorne mentions many settings in the novel, including the wilderness, custom-house, prison door and the town scaffold. The town scaffold is the place that sets off the novel’s beginning, middle, and end. It’s also where the most exciting scenes of…

Why do people fear what they do not know or understand? When people buy into the idea or illusion that the world is only black and white, gray is often misunderstood and not accepted. Small changes or differences are not always welcomed among the hearts and minds of the people who view the world as either black or white. This is clearly the case in “The Minister’s Black Veil”, the wearing of the veil is misunderstood and not accepted amongst the people. I chose “The Minister’s Black Veil”…

In the Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne writes his main character, Hester Prynne, loosely based on the real life Puritan dissenter, Anne Hutchinson. However, although Hutchinson is the main inspiration for Prynne, Hawthorne also wrote his own personality into that of Hester Prynne, making her a sort of cross between the characters of Hawthorne and Hutchinson. When she first appears in the novel, Hester Prynne is being taken from the jailhouse to a raised scaffolding…

Who exactly was Nathaniel Hawthorne? Nathaniel Hathorne was born on July 4th, of 1804. He was son to Captain Nathaniel Hathorne and his wife Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne. Captain Hathorne died in 1808 at sea of yellow fever, leaving Elizabeth with no financial support to raise her three children Nathaniel, Elizabeth and Louisa. They were forced to move in with Elizabeth's brothers in Salem. This is often thought to be where his introverted personality started. While here, Nathaniel had a…

Nathaniel Hawthorne is a well known American novelist and short story writer. He was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts and died on May 19, 1864 in Plymouth, New Hampshire. When Hawthorne was a child, he suffered a leg injury that left him unable to move for various months. During his paralyzation, he developed a “voracious appetite for reading and set his sights on becoming a writer” (Biography.com Editors). In the years that followed, Hawthorn was able to attend and graduate from…

American Romanticism produce are: emotional intensity, common man as hero, equality, individualism, Manifest Destiny, the nature of good or evil, abolition, and many other more. One of the author who himself or his work may sound familiar is Nathanial Hawthorne, who wrote The Scarlet…

than nine months after Hester left her husband in England so she could go to America. The author of the Scarlet letter is a man named Nathaniel Hawthorne who was a nineteenth-century American novelist, and a short story writer. Nathaniel Hawthorne became the key figure on developing American Literature for his novels of the Nation Colonial History. Hawthorne worked as a measurer in the Boston Custom House.…

It is said that Nathaniel Hawthorne always knew what he wanted to do in life; to be an author. Hawthorne, author of Rappaccini’s Daughter, is quoted as saying, “I do not want to be a doctor and live by men 's diseases, nor a minister to live by their sins, nor a lawyer and live by their quarrels. So, I don 't see that there is anything left for me but to be and author." (European Graduate School p. 1, Para 2) Nathaniel Hawthorne was born and raised in Salem, Massachusetts. Salem, as one knows,…