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Nathaniel
Hawthorne -
Nearly 100 Essays On Hawthorne's Works!!!
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s
writings are inseparable from the geographical and
cultural backdrop of the New England landscape. Both are deeply
rooted in the traditions and morality of its Puritan
inhabitants. Hawthorne was particularly masterful at
conveying his moralistic messages through metaphoric
images in his writing. For Hawthorne, his personal and
literary journey toward moral decency was never easy. It
was fraught with unhappiness, and the sins of his
forefathers weighed heavily upon him. In his preface to The
House of the Seven Gables (1850), Hawthorne commented
on how successive generations are destined to carry the burden
of their forefathers’ mistakes, whether through curses
by witches or by violations of stringent moral codes:
"Many writers lay very great stress upon some
definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their
works. Not to be deficient in this particular, the author
has provided himself with a moral,-- the truth, namely,
that the wrongdoing of one generation lives into the
successive ones" (xiv).
Most of Nathaniel
Hawthorne’s most famous novels and short stories are
representative of the problems most writers of his era had
with Christianity and Calvinism. Hawthorne,
ever a product of his New England puritanical upbringing,
shrewdly noticed that the distinction between good and
evil was regarded as so stark that there was no room for
compromise, or middle-of-the-road approach. The
more than fifty essays
featured on this site can help today's students put Hawthorne’s
nineteenth-century Puritan New England into a twenty-first
century perspective.
By downloading one of our many essays on the works of
Nathaniel Hawthorne, students can probe beyond the gothic motif of
ghosts and witches to reveal the contemporary themes of
love, adultery, morality and social alienation. Many of our essays are simple:
Reviewing any of Hawthorne's stories & their inherent
themes. Others are more complex, thesis-based arguments--
citing secondary critical sources in the MLA style. Our list
of abstracts generally dictates the particulars of any
given essay and free, full page excerpts from any of our
papers are available upon request! Just write
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