Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

• 1804 - 1864

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Background Information

• Birth
• Salem, Massachusetts
• July 4, 1804
• Married Sophia Peabody
• Friend of Herman Melville who dedicated Moby Dick
  to him
• American Author
• Died in May of 1864

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Three Stages of Writing
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Four Aspects of His Writing
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• Universal Themes
• Uses settings from the past
• Allegory
• A story with a literal and an implied meaning
• Ambiguity
• Allows for several ways of viewing details in a
  story
• Ambivalence
• Reflects the coexistence of conflicting feelings
  of an author

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Religion
Religious skeptic
Viewed man as a flawed creature
Did not embrace Transcen-dentalism
Rejected Puritanism and Biblical Christianity
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Bibliography

• American Literature
• by Raymond A. St. John
• Bob Jones University Press
• Inspiration
• http//www.tdl.com/julian/the-writers-corner/_haw
  th.htm