BIOGRAM The man Nathaniel Hawthorne, an author of the nineteenth century, was born in 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts. It was there that he lived a poverty-stricken childhood without the financial support of a father, because he had passed away in 1808. Hawthorne was raised strictly Puritan, his great-grandfather had even been one of the judges in the Puritan witchcraft trials during the 1600s. This and Hawthorne’s destitute upbringing advanced his understanding of human nature and distress …showed first 75 words of 1322 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1322 total…it is afraid of something on your bosom.” Another follows this example, when Prynne attempts to reach out and touch a bit of sunshine, which is pouring trough an opening in the leaves and “as she attempted to do so the sunshine vanished”. Examples such as these show Hawthorne’s use of allegory and light/dark imagery to jockey his characters and setting to elevate good and to illuminate the horrors of evil. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**