... writers. To some, Nathaniel Hawthorne has earned both of these titles. From writing several successful novels, and many short stories, Hawthorne has introduced the way of life in Puritanical America to many readers. Along with his views on this culture, ... way they treat other people. He does this by using primary characters in the novels The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, and many short stories who have a problem, like an inner secret, or who have some kind of guilt, and shows how society looks upon these people. It regards ... elements because it was not appropriate f...

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... in Young Goodman Brown, The Man that Corrupted Hadleyberg, Monster, and The Devil and Daniel Webster. He writes that "It is truly curious that four stories, which at first glance seem more remarkable for their dissimilarity than anything else.... -should have much more in common than mere appeal. They have, in ... truth, a theme of origin, and with repetition the theme has become almost a tradition." In each of these stories, some strange being gets into some smug region and causes a catalytic upheaval to bring about a revelation of human frailties. This theme writes Leeb "is ... great ...

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... heart of womanhood" (Hawthorne, 160). For once during the seven years that the tale takes place Hester embraces her womanhood again, but this is cut short as Pearl cannot handle what she sees. The child "burst into a fit of passion, gesticulating violently, and throwing her small figure into the most ... good, and in the end becomes admired by the people who made her an outcast in the first place. If this is not one of the best comeback stories ever then I do not know what is. Hester's selflessness is a quality all people, not just women, should emulate. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary on...

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... Wieland, or The Transformation, for example, is about the Wieland family and all of the paranormal events that happen to them. Next is "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving. This short story is "the first to seize the American imagination."58 This is a tale of a man who goes into mountains to hunt, and, while there, he encounters ghostly men who offer ... this true, then Moby Dick passes the test. Melville speaks of "forbidden seas,"68 prophetic events, and a white whale of immense size and strange powers. But as all of these stories are coming together, the United States is coming ungl...

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