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    (Chen).” Puritans were filled with extreme beliefs which caused them to harm anyone who believed anything separate from their views. This is a common reality of today’s life as well; Nevertheless‚ Hawthorne’s work is based largely on symbolism. Hawthorne uses colors to symbolize the different aspects of Puritans lifestyle. He wants his readers to feel the variety of emotions through colors by bringing attention to a rainbow. The story itself is also based on some historical truth. For Example‚

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    In “The Birth-Mark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the most noticeable symbol is Georgiana’s birthmark on her cheek. Her birthmark is a tiny red spot on her cheek in the shape of a small hand. In the story it says‚ “some fairy at her birth-hour had laid her tiny hand upon the infant’s cheek” (340). At the beginning of the story Georgiana has grown so tired of the birthmark she says‚ “Either remove this dreadful hand‚ or take my wretched life!” (342). Aylmer‚ her husband the scientist‚ decides to take up

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    In the introductory sketch to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel the "The Scarlet Letter"‚ the reader is informed that one of the author’s ancestors persecuted the Quakers harshly. The latter’s son was a high judge in the Salem witch trials‚ put into literary form in Arthur Miller’s "The Crucible" (Judge Hawthorne appears there). We learn that Hawthorne feels ashamed for their deeds‚ and that he sees his ancestors and the Puritan society as a whole with critical eyes. Consequently‚ both open and subtle

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    The story “The Birth-Mark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne is set In Europe during the eighteenth century. Specifically the story is set in Aylmer’s sinister laboratory‚ along with a beautiful boudoir. These two locations represent what Aylmer wants to accomplish and his failures. The laboratory as described by the narrator is said to be a place that is gaseous‚ and covered in soot altogether a hideous place‚ something to be ashamed of like failures; In comparison to the boudoir that is filled with nice aromas

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    Why would he make his beautiful daughter Beatrice (protagonist) immune to the poison and make it impossible to be in love with Giovanni (the young student living in the old edifice)? The twisted and dark story of "Rappaccini’s Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne definitely covers almost every aspect of Dark Romanticism. These are all examples of negative imagery‚ gothic elements‚ and harmful nature relations shown throughout the story and how Dark Romanticism is very much present. "Rappaccini’s Daughter

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem‚ Massachusetts into a family that was of Puritan belief since generations. Hawthorne’s lived in poverty with his mother and two younger sisters in a house filled with Puritan ideals. He had a feeling to some extents of Puritanism as being intolerant and cruel. Hawthorne’s states that Puritans feared that some women were completely lost to God and had turned to witchcraft to serve the Devil. Although these witches still appeared human‚ the Devil would use them

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    common culture. The Puritan societies that once populated the New England colonies captured this idea of community and heightened it to its extremes. The community’s stern regulations create a habitat which lacks personal expression and leaves little room within its boundaries for one’s own identity to be ascertained. Nathaniel Hawthorne demonstrates their austere standards for society throughout his novel‚ The Scarlet Letter. In a Puritan society dominated by the necessity to conform‚ only those who

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    Hawthorne’s Reoccurring Themes Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ considered by many to be one of the great American writers‚ is known for his unique style of writing. His darkened tales of moral folly captures the destruction caused by immorality. Examples of this can be seen in “The Minister’s Black Veil” and “The Birthmark”. “The Minister’s Black Veil” is a story about a clergyman that one day arrives at church wearing a black veil. From this day forward‚ he is never seen without the veil‚ and offers

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    “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne The short story “The Birthmark” written by Nathaniel Hawthorne will have any reader feeling a variety of emotions. “The Birthmark” is simply about a woman‚ Georgiana‚ with an extremely unique birthmark on her left cheek that her husband‚ Aylmer‚ highly dislikes. Her husband is a scientist‚ and he is determined to find a successful way to get this hideous birthmark off of his wife’s cheek. The theme in “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne is highly dependent

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    Internally Sinned Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ one of the leading American novelists and short story writers‚ used sin as a recurring theme in his works. Merriam Webster defines sin as an offense against religious or moral law. Hawthorne believed everyone had some type of sin in his or her “soul.” In his works‚ Hawthorne makes it clear to his readers that a sin is an act of evil but the true definition of a sin is ones response to the sin. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ Hawthorne is able to exemplify

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