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Nathaniel Hawthorne's ideas and views
Title: Nathaniel Hawthorne's ideas and views
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 890 | Pages: 3.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Nathaniel Hawthorne's ideas and views
Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest Anti-Transcendentalist writers of
all time. He utilized his writings to express his dark, gloomy outlook on life.
Hawthorne, a descendant of a puritan family, was born in Salem,
Massachusetts. Some of his ancestors included a judge known for the harsh
persecution of Quakers, and another judge who played an important role in the Salem
witchcraft trials. Hawthorne's attitude was molded by a sense of guilt, which he traced
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…showed last 75 words of 890 total…agony, has brought Dimmesdale to a death of "triumphant ignominy" on the
scaffold, has victimized the victimizer -- Chillingsworth. Hawthorne begins and ends
with the letter, which encompasses and transcends all its individual meanings, which
signifies, totally and finally, The Scarlet Letter itself."
Shown by his past, and his feelings toward it, by the books that he wrote and
the life that he led, Nathaniel Hawthorne was an Anti-Transcendentalist in the purest
sense of the word.
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