Heritage Alyssa Henry James and Nathaniel Hawthorne Comparison and Contrast English III Honors 5

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4th, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts. His ancestors were comprised of businessmen, judges, and seamen, all who were Puritans with a strict religious discipline. His father died while

Benjamin Franklin was born January 17, of the year 1706, in Boston, MA, which was the

He never knew who his biological father was until he was 10 years old. The teasing throughout the years was harsh. They accused him of being a nobody with no father. Since then he strived to be somebody! He lived by it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne has encountered many challenges throughout his lifetime. He was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts. When he was only at the age of 4, he lost his father and “A leg injury at an early age left Nathaniel immobile for several months” (Biography.com).With the aid of his wealthy relatives, he was given the opportunity to attend Bowdoin College. After some time in college, he greatly missed his mother and sisters and so he returned home and started to write. He then married Sophia Peabody and had three children.

died in the bed next to him. He was adopted by a cousin who committed

born in 1642. Also he is from Puritan New England. He was raised in Leicestershire near

In my opinion what made Hawthorne so unique is that he was not only just a writer but he was a very meticulous critic on himself

Nathaniel Hawthorne's literature exhibits the influence of many factors. Much of his literature addresses Puritan culture in early America, commonly focusing on the shortcomings and hypocrisies that became apparent during the numerous witch hunts. Many of his works are allegorical, using the Puritan setting to portray his own ideas about ancestry, history, and religion. While The Scarlet Letter and House of the Seven Gables are among Hawthorne's most known works, he produced a large sum of work, including many famous short stories. The most important of these, "Young Goodman Brown," is noted for its vivid depiction of witch craft and Puritan culture. However, it is of greater significance because the story clearly exhibits the marks

Twice his first wife died during his 2nd trip to Europe, and his 2nd wife died in a house fire.He also had six kids five lived to be an adult.

When Nathaniel was 4 years old, his father, a sea captain, died of yellow fever at sea. Nathaniel, his mom Elizabeth, and his two sisters were left with very little financial support, so they moved in with Elizabeth's wealthy brothers. At a young age, Nathaniel had a leg injury which left him immobile or a few months. During those few months, Hawthorne developed a taste for reading and thinking.

Nathaniel Hawthorne is a popular and well known American novelist and short story writer to people all over the globe. He is considered an expert in American fiction. His works of literature often had the same element of fear as many other writers. However, instead of using the actual horror to excite the readers at the climax he focused on the reactions of the characters and how they felt due to the extreme feeling of terror and

New England in the early 1800's, before the Civil War, was a place teeming with artists, intellectuals, and reformers of every sort. Many of America's great literary geniuses came out of this era; and among the greatest of these was Nathaniel Hawthorne. He was, as Q. D. Leavis put it, "the critic and interpreter of American cultural history and thereby the finder and creator of a literary tradition (Kaul 27)," and, "a sociological novelist in effect, employing a poetic technique which communicates instead of stating his findings (Kaul 28)." In his stories, Hawthorne pointed out many characteristics of American society and of human nature, and brought about a new tradition in American literature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer who was born in Salem, Massachusetts July fourth 1804. When Hawthorne was a young man he served as the editor of the American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge. That job introduced him into the world of writing and at that point he decided what he wanted to do until the day he died. “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 to be but an author.” Hawthorne was found too dense, too gloomy, and to complex. To overcome these problem people would attempt to view Hawthorne as a riddler and wry joke who always challenged himself and all authorities. Hawthorne published several diminutive stories in various publications which he collected in 1873 as Twice-Told Tales. The 1900’s American author Nathaniel Hawthorne’s writings were influenced by his guilt because of his non-repentant grandfathers’ involvement in the Salem witch trials.

Nathaniel Hawthorne was a prominent writer of his time, mainly through using symbolism, but the question is why use a literary device that constantly points to a reason behind the story? In order to understand why Hawthorne use symbolism we must look for the reason he does it. Also, we will look at his writing style that will see what influences gave him the motive to use symbolism in his works. When he was a child, his father was a sailor, who would traveled the seas until his death 1808. Hawthorne would read his logbooks that detail his father’s many adventures on the seas, this would help him when he wrote and publish his first novel in 1828. However, in writing more stories, Hawthorne developed his own writing style based off his own beliefs.

When language serves as a tool for characterization, two fundamental distinctions must be established: whether the verbal forms of self-presentation remain implicit or explicit and whether the implicit form of self-presentation is voluntary or involuntary. Explicit self-presentation occurs when “a figure consciously outlines its picture of itself” and this may happen in the context of either monologue or dialogue. The information received from the character in this way is not objective or trustful and should be evaluated as elements of a subjectively coloured form of self-presentation. In examples of explicit self-presentation within a dialogue, there is a deceiving factor embodied in the strategic intentions of the speaker who frequently