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Nathanial Hawthorne. By: Katarina Martin. Early Life:. Born July 4 th 1808, in Salem Mass. his great-great-grandfather , John Hathorne, was one of the judges who oversaw the Salem Witch Trials. Nathaniel later added a "w" to make his name "Hawthorne ".
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Nathanial Hawthorne By: Katarina Martin
Early Life: • Born July 4th 1808, in Salem Mass. • his great-great-grandfather, John Hathorne, was one of the judges who oversaw the Salem Witch Trials. • Nathaniel later added a "w" to make his name "Hawthorne". • - In the summer off 1816 he lived with farmers as boarders in Maine, until a house was built just for him and his family in. • - In 1819, he was sent back to Salem to go to school.
Early Life count. • In spite of his homesickness, for fun, he distributed to his family seven issues of The Spectator in August and September 1820. • - Homemade newspaper was written by hand and included essays, poems, and news utilizing the young author's developing adolescent humor.
Early Career: • Hawthorne served as the editor of the American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge in 1836. • He contributed short stories, including "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Minister's Black Veil", to various magazines and annuals, though none drew major attention to the author. • He contributed short stories, including "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Minister's Black Veil", to various magazines and annuals, though none drew major attention to the author.
Writing Styles and Themes: • He mostly wrote short stories and poems. • He did romanticism or, more specifically, dark romanticism. • Many of his works were inspired by Puritans. • -He combined historical romance with symbolism and deep psychological themes, bordering on surrealism.
Novels: • Only wrote a few: • - Fanshawe (published anonymously) • - The Scarlet Letter • - The House of the Seven Gables • - The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni
Short Stories: • - Roger Malvin'sBurial • - My Kinsman, Major Molineux • - Young Goodman Brown • - The Ambitious Guest • - The Minister's Black Veil • - The Maypole of Merry Mount • - Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
The MayPole of Merry Mount • - The people of Merrymount, whom Hawthorne calls the "crew of Comus," celebrate the marriage of Edgar and Edith, a youth and a maiden. • - They dance around a maypole and are described as resembling forest creatures. They are interrupted by the arrival of John Endicott and his Puritan followers. • - Endicott orders for the people of Merrymount to be whipped. Stricken by the newlyweds, he spares them but orders they be put in more conservative clothing. • - He also orders the youth cut his hair in the "pumpkin shell“ style to show how strict the Puritans are.
Interesting Facts: • - Hawthorne was a friend with a number of Transcendentalists, including Emerson and Thoreau, though he never fully embraced their views. But that didn’t create any bad blood. Emerson was a pallbearer at Hawthorne’s funeral. • - Herman Melville dedicated his great novel Moby Dick to Hawthorne, his good friend. • - When he presented his manuscript for The Scarlet Letter to the publisher, they deemed it too short for publication. • - Hawthorn struggled with the idea of being a writer, since many of his relations didn't consider it "real" work.