... and positive. Nathaniel Hawthorne, known for works such as The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables, lived in a puritan society in Salem, Massachusetts. Puritan society was very restrictive and socially constrictive. Any one who fell outside of their "role" in society was insulted, ridiculed, or tortured to death. Hawthorne's grandfather was one of the judges that participated in the Salem witchcraft trials. This greatly influenced Hawthorne's writings in ... many ways. The struggle between good and evil and the effects that ... ...

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