Nathaniel Hawthorne Summary

Hawthorne, Nathaniel Born: July 4, 1804 Salem, Massachusetts Died: May 19, 1864 Plymouth, New Hampshire Writer and descendant of John Hathorne, chief magistrate in the Salem trials Although American a... Read more

The work of American fiction writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was based on the history of his Puritan ancestors and the New England of his own day but, in its "power of blackness," has universal... Read more

In sketches, tales, and romances published in the second third of the nineteenth century, Hawthorne chose mainly American materials, drawing especially on the history of colonial New England and his n... Read more

On 9 July 1842 Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody were married in a simple ceremony that capped a courtship of nearly five years. Thus Hawthorne, at the age of thirty-eight, assumed his role as he... Read more

In the following essay, Ringe reviews Nathaniel Hawthorne's treatment of insanity throughout his short stories and novels. Ringe argues that Hawthorne attempted to accurately portray the mental... Read more

Are men good? Or are they evil? In Nathaniel Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter, the author clearly believes that all humans are not purely good or evil, but they are an intertwining of both good and evil... Read more

Nathaniel Hawthorne often employed symbols in his stories. The literary term symbol is like an allusion placed in an image, action, thing or person ("images and symbols"). Symbols may be hard for r... Read more