... chapters deal with symbols found in characters, settings, objects and some proper nouns. On the one hand, the first chapter deals with symbols in relation to Romanticism in the nineteenth century. On the other hand, the second chapter deals with symbols in relation to Nathaniel Hawthorne's life. Thus, we will try to study them, and to link them to the author ... not only present in Hawthorne's fiction, but also in his real life. He tended to oppose reforms concerning women's position and roles in society that were rising in the 19th century. From the following passage we understand that...

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... uncovers a manuscript wrapped in the cloth, which he later reads. Jonathan Pue, a customs surveyor, wrote the composition a hundred years before, about an account of events that happened in the mid-seventeenth century. The narrator reads it and subsequently decides to write a fictional story out of Hester Prynne's experiences. Though he knows his story will not be exactly accurate in facts, he trusts ... ...

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