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    Nathaniel Hawthorne was a well known American writer, He is still being spoke of today over 200 years after his death. Many people praised him for his writing including, Edgar Allan Poe Praising “Twice-Told Tales”(Liukkonen, Petri). His life was calm for most of his life and, he was very focused on ensuring his family’s financial security. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ancestors had lived in Salem since the 1600’s (“Nathaniel Hawthorne”) ,He had a mother and a father, but his father died when he was just

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne-The Mind Nathaniel Hawthorne was born July 4, 1804 he was known as an American novelist, who writes dark romantic short stories. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts to his parents to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning. Nathaniel Hawthorne was originally named Nathaniel Hathorne but he later added a "w" to make his name "Hawthorne" in order to hide the relation to his ancestor John Hathorne, who was the only judge involved in the Salem witch trials who never felt

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short-story writer. He wrote many famous novels and short stories, but one question a lot of people still have is "Was Nathaniel Hawthorne a profoundly Christian writer?" Looking into his life, ancestors, background, and works, we can determine if Nathaniel Hawthorne was a Christian writer. Nathaniel was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. His ancestors had lived in Salem all the way since the seventeenth century. His oldest American

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in Salem Massachusetts. Hawthorne was born into a puritan household. One of his ancestors, William Hathorne, immigrated from England to The America’s in 1630 (where he settles in Massachusetts). His ancestor William became in Salem and was known for his harsh sentencing. Due to this Nathaniel latter added a “w” to his name to lose relation to his family. Nathaniel was the only male child to his parents Nathaniel and Elizabeth Hathorne. Unfortunately his father

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne Puritan Influence Nathaniel Hawthorne drew from his personal and childhood experiences to write his literary works. The event that affected him and showed in his writing was “...the infamous Salem witch trials had taken place more than 100 years earlier, the events still hung over the town and made a lasting impression on the young Hawthorne…("The Scarlet,"History.com). By the event having a impact on him from a young age it affected his writing and helped him in the development

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne: a radical writer. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4th from 1804, and he died on May 9th from 1864. Hawthorne was born on Salem, Massachusetts, additionally, he was descendant of John Hawthorne, one of the judges that participated on the witch trials. Two experiences influenced his writing, that is that his father death when he was so young and after he married his wife Sophia, he started writing about his own beliefs. Nathaniel Hawthorne was a radical and provocative writer

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne once said, “I do not want to be a doctor and live by men’s diseases, nor minister to live by their sins, nor a lawyer and live by men’s quarrels. So, I don’t see that there is anything left for me but to be an author” (Nathaniel). This statement describes Hawthorne’s personality and life in a way that no other quote could. Nathaniel Hawthorne was an Anti-Transcendentalist writer meaning that he had a negative view of all humans. The Anti-Transcendentalist movement was a pessimistic

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote one of the most studied short story in literature, “Young Goodman Brown”. This short story is widely use because of the deep meaning and strong internal attachment it has with the reader. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts his family had been early settlers, one of his great-grandfather was a judge during the Salem witch trials and had twenty-five women killed. Hearing his great-grandfather talk about this subject made Hawthorne both obsessed and a little

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    The novel, The Scarlet Letter, was written by the author Nathaniel Hawthorne and was published in 1850 (1). It is a story about the Puritan settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, set around 1650 (2). The story is written in the third person with the narrator being the author. The common thread that runs through this novel is Hawthorne’s apparent understanding of the beliefs and culture of the Puritans in America at that time. But Hawthorne is writing about events in a society that existed 200 years

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    The Power of Nathaniel Hawthorne 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

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