Nathaniel Hawthorne By Daija Latham
Who Is Nathaniel Hawthorne? Born: July 4, 1804Died: May 19,1864 He was the son of Elizabeth Clarke Manning and Nathaniel Hathorne. He added the "w" to his name when he began publishing. Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine ( ) After college, he settled in Salem and continued writing. Between about 1825 and 1850, he developed his talent by writing short fiction and the novel Fanshawe (1828). He was a member of the Brook Farm community near Boston briefly in Hawthorne married Sophia Peabody in Hawthorne called his writing "romance," which he defined as a method of showing "the depths of our common nature.” He thought of romance as confronting reality, not evading it.
Major Interests & Accomplishments He graduated from Bowdoin College in Hawthorne became one of the leading writers of his time. He earned world wide fame for his novel, The Scarlett Letter Some of Hawthorne’s other works include The Blithedale Romance (1852), The Marble Faun (1860), and The House of Seven Gables (1851) In 1853, President Pierce appointed Hawthorne to a four- year term as United States consul in Liverpool, England. In 1851, Herman Melville dedicated Moby Dick to Hawthorne. Hawthorne’s main interest was to show humanity the impact and consequences of their actions and emotions. Like Edgar Allan Poe, Hawthorne took a dark view of human nature.
He Said That?– Significant Quotes “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” “Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.” “Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!” ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne’s Impact The themes of most of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s works center around morality, sin, and redemption. He moved away from formalism and dived into exploring the ideas of self-responsibility, the importance of individualism and man’s relationship to nature. He mostly sought out change in Puritan New England but he managed to impact the entire nation. He emphasized that society can be cruel by alienating people on accord of who they were or what they are.
Quiz Time!!! Quiz Time!!! 1.What is Hawthorne’s most famous and influential book? The Scarlett Letter 2.Where did Hawthorne go to college? Bowdoin College 3.What was his wife’s name? Sophia Peabody 4.Which of his books did the following quote come from: “Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!” “Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!” The Scarlett Letter 5.Who dedicated their book to Hawthorne in 1851? Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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