... the Salem family's sixth generation. His ancestors include Puritan magnates, judges, and seamen, so it is apparent that his family was full of people striving for excellence (Encyclopedia 2 of World Biography). It is obvious that Hawthorne was raised in a very restrictive, repressive, and socially constrictive society of the Puritans who "shunned, insulted, exiled, or tortured to death any one that fell ... it is said that "he looked back upon these years as a period of dreamlike isolation and solitude, spent in a haunted chamber, where he sat enchanted while other men moved on" (Biogra...

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... his aversions of the earthly world, losing himself in imagination and being catapulted freely into the sky, he is gently brought back down to earth. He has briefly experienced a limitless euphoria, but by the pull of gravity, this rapturous sensation is subdued for the time being as he is brought back to all that the beauty the actual world has to ... ...

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... inherited evil and sin of humanity. Hawthorne was a firm believer in human imperfection, falls from grace, and generational curses. Although understanding Hawthorne's works can be challenging, by closely examining Hawthorne's biography, along with the subjects and themes of his writings, the reader will better understand how Hawthorne's personal demons inspired him to deliver his messages of human imperfections through his writings ... ...

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... influenced chiefly by authors in the great tradition - Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, and Bunyan- ( Baym.16). Critics praised Hawthorne for his works and he even got a reward for one of his biography pieces. After living in Italy for a little with his wife, Sophia Amelia Peabody, they moved back to the United States. In 1863, Hawthorne published his last book called Our Old ... ...

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