Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, to a family that had been prominent in the area since colonial times. Hawthorne was very handsome and never had problems with looks. When Nathaniel was four, his father died on a voyage in Surinam. Hawthorne was extremely concerned with traditional values. From 1836 to 1844, the Boston-centered Transcendentalist movement, led by Ralph Waldo Emerson, was an i

On the other hand, Nathaniel Hawthorne was more of a Romantic. Romanticism allowed people to get away from the constricted, rational views of life and concentrate on an emotional and sentimental side of humanity. It was a time when he would find answers to problems by simply using his heart and searching his soul.

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