Vicariously, Nathaniel Hawthorne could have gone the same route exposing his Puritan attitude in the plot of the story. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne tried his hardest to present Puritan society but failed to acknowledge its true reality. ... Sin could quite be one of the useful tools Nathaniel Hawthorne used to create such associable characters. ... If this were slightly true, then why would Nathaniel Hawthorne begin to provide a public source for his past experiences? ... It is with this excerpt that many have praised the genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne's attempts to recapture an interestin...

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Known for their strict, repressive society, the Puritans barred all forms of deviation within their community, as described in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. ... In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, the Puritan community of Boston essentially creates Hester Prynne's deviation. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne, portrayed as the Narrator, appears to be a deviant character himself. ... This alludes to a parallel between Hawthorne and Hester on the grounds of alienation and social exclusion. ... Hawthorne also seems to mirror many aspects of Hester's personality - feeling...

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American Renaissance Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," belongs to the period known as American romanticism, the period called, by F.O. ... Matthiessen was influential in determining the canon of American writers from this period: Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. ... Herman Melville: an author of romantic fiction as was Hawthorne, Melville is particularly well known for his novel Moby-Dick. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne: many of Hawthorne's stories are set in Puritan New England, and his greatest novel, The Scarlet Letter (1850), has become the classic port...

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Such works include, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Henry David Thoreau's Walden, the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Edgar Allan Poe's short stories (Hurley 13, 15). ...

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Influenced writers of this time include Washington Irving, author of RIP VAN WINKLE; Edgar Allan Poe, author of many masterpieces, such as THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, ELDORADO, ANNABEL LEE, TO HELEN, and THE RAVEN; Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, author of the famous MOBY DICK. ...

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