In The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, and The Blithedale Romance Hawthorne exhibits his themes of evil, moral responsibility, and crime and romance, and proves that anyone is capable of falling from grace, as humans are born with an evil nature. ... The Scarlet Letter, along with The House of Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance, is still read and anthologized in high schools and colleges across the United States today. ... The House of Seven Gables was Hawthorne's follow-up novel to the highly successful The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne, haunted by the sins of his ancestors,...

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His mother, Elizabeth Manning Hathorne, could not manage 3 young children on her own and moved the family to his uncle Manning's house where he spent the remainder of his youth. ... Upon his graduation from Bowdoin in 1825, Hawthorne moved back to his mother's house in Salem where he spent 12 years in what he would later refer to as a period of isolation during which he did a great deal of writing, thinking and developing his voice as an author ("Hawthorne, Nathaniel"). ... Despite the success of his work, their income was still extremely low and in 1845, the family moved in with Haw...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate