His great-great-Grandfather was John Hathorne, who was one of the judges in the infamous Salem Witch Trials and mercilessly sentenced many innocent people to their deaths ("Nathaniel Hawthorne - Biography"). ... So, I don't see that there is anything left for me but to be an author (qt. in "Nathaniel Hawthorne - Biography")." ... The book was a great success and received exceptionally positive feedback ("Nathaniel Hawthorne - Biography"). ... In 1841, in an attempt to gain some financial stability, they decided to move to an experimental transcendentalist community called Brook Farm ("...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, an early-American writer plagued by the sins of his ancestors, channeled the guilt and shame he felt to write novels and short stories that would earn himself a spot among the most-read and most famous American writers of all time. ... Although understanding Hawthorne's works can be challenging, by closely examining Hawthorne's biography, along with the subjects and themes of his writings, the reader will better understand how Hawthorne's personal demons inspired him to deliver his messages of human imperfections through his writings. ... Hawthorne was born ...

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"The Birthmark:" or Rejection of Puritan Society The article "Birthmarks and Bioethics" by Nick Gillespie challenges the role of "The Birthmark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne by insinuating that the short story is a mere scratch of the surface for more important bioethical issues. ... His ancestors include Puritan magnates, judges, and seamen, so it is apparent that his family was full of people striving for excellence (Encyclopedia 2 of World Biography). ... Hawthorne spends the years from 1825 to 1837 in his mother's Puritan Salem household, and it is said that "he looked back upon...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne strayed from this redundant theme in his story The Scarlet Letter. ... Hawthorne wrote in a biography of Anne Hutchinson that "Woman's intellect should never give the tone to that of man; and even her morality is not exactly the material for masculine virtue" (qtd. in Murfin, 275). ... So was Hawthorne a chauvinist? ... Some critics of Hawthorne say that he overdid symbolism. ... References Hawthorne, Nathaniel. ...

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It is the work of the American romantic writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. ... In other words, we are going to link symbols to romanticism and to Hawthorne's biography. ... In the second chapter, we have selected an author-oriented approach, referring to the author's biography. ... On the other hand, the second chapter deals with symbols in relation to Nathaniel Hawthorne's life. Thus, we will try to study them, and to link them to the author's life, thanks to biographies and the work of some critics. ...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the setting and time in the forest as a method of symbolizing the theme of a symbolic journey into the depths of consciousness. ... Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 74: American Short - Story Writers Before 1880. ... Hawthorne, Nathaniel. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne. ... Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 223: The American Renaissance in New England, Second Series. ...

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Beauty; the unattainable possession Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of literature's greatest and also most well known American writer's of his time. ... Critics praised Hawthorne for his works and he even got a reward for one of his biography pieces. ... In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "The Artist of the Beautiful," the main character Owen Warland struggles with the reality that beauty is an unattainable possession which can only be possessed when one has faith. ... (Hawthorne.289). ... In 1825, "Nathaniel Hawthorne seemed to have little chance of becoming a writer. ...

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His biography for Abraham Lincoln earned him enough money to travel to New England and meet the great writers, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, and Walt Whitman (Edwin H., 288). ...

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