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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