... ancestors that had been some of the first Puritan settlers in New England. His great-great-Grandfather was John Hathorne, who was one of the judges in the infamous Salem Witch Trials and mercilessly sentenced many innocent people to their deaths ("Nathaniel Hawthorne - Biography"). Despite living a very different life, his ancestor's involvement in the events of the trials had a very ... nature. In 1841, in an attempt to gain some financial stability, they decided to move to an experimental transcendentalist community called Brook Farm ("Nathaniel Hawthorne - Biography"). The experience...

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... led to the creation of the novel, this adds to the conventional view of the genre by using the "witching hour". The use of the witch idea played upon the fears of people at that time as some individuals still suspected those who worked in the field of alchemy. Shelley also ... who perceives this to be a perfect opportunity to gain a friend because he will not have developed prejudice against his appearance, but this perception is short-lived as William has also been brought up around beautiful people, like Frankenstein, despite his Christian upbringing. William cries out, divulging the k...

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