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Emotion in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

            Many of Hawthorne's stories describe peoples' emotions in good detail. Heidegger's Experiment" is all about people and their emotions. The first part of the story describes each different character's life and how they have messed it up terribly. He lets you get to know the characters well on the inside so the story has more of an impact on the reader. Then he ends up describing them emotionally after they have taken a drink from the waters of the fountain of youth that shows how they have reverted back to their old naive selves. He does all this while teaching a lesson about life. Also in "The Ministers Black Veil," Hawthorne goes into great detail on how the people react emotionally to the black veil the minister was wearing. His emotional backbone to his stories is what makes them work and is what makes his writing romantic.Many of Hawthorne's stories describe peoples' emotions in good detail. "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" is all about people and their emotions. The first part of the story describes each different character's life and how they have messed it up terribly. He lets you get to know the characters well on the inside so the story has more of an impact on the reader. Then he ends up describing them emotionally after they have taken a drink from the waters of the fountain of youth that shows how they have reverted back to their old naive selves. He does all this while teaching a lesson about life. Also in "The Ministers Black Veil," Hawthorne goes into great detail on how the people react emotionally to the black veil the minister was wearing. His emotional backbone to his stories is what makes them work and is what makes his writing romantic.Many of Hawthorne's stories describe peoples' emotions in good detail. "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" is all about people and their emotions. The first part of the story describes each different character's life and how they have messed it up terribly.


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... with a decision in life, big or small, people try to make the best choices. However, despite good intentions, people often make poor choices. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is the story about Hester Prynne, a woman who commits adultery and is filled with many feelings, including pride, surrounding that sin. Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmesdale make poor decisions repeatedly because of lack of insight and uncontrolled ... mistakes and they learn from them. Living a life is a repetition of making decisions, and whenever people are faced with them, they try to ...

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2. Supernatural In American Fiction And Soceity

... The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."1 Therefore, it makes sense that if mortals cannot bear the darkness, they [should not] not go there. If man dislikes "black night and yawning chasms,"2 then should he not even consider them? Shouldn't man seek out the sunshine, instead? The remedy is very simple: Avoid the darkness and seek the ... woman in town is accused of being a witch, and the cycle continues.43 Another important example of hysterical paranoia from the Puritan era is The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel...

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3. Hawthornes Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote numerous stories about people who commit themselves to certain quests. This topic is prominent in several of his works, including "My Kinsman, Major Molineux," "Roger Malvin's Burial," "Young Goodman Brown," and "The Minister's Black Veil." In each story, the protagonist character embarks on a particular quest, and in these stories, the characters are successful to different degrees, with some more successful than others. The success of the characters" quests also depends on ... you with my useless body if you hasten onward alone, you may be preserved." (pg. 19). Aft...

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4. Little Women

... that, "Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on 1832"(i). Soon after her birth, the family moved and settled in Concord, Massachusetts, where Alcott was inspired by fellow authors and neighbors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry Thoreau (i). Early in her life Louisa took on a large chunk of the family's financial burden through teaching and her ... writing. Parton found that due to Alcott's father's repeated failures in various trades, Alcott found it economically productive to create stories drawn from ... the loss of her canary and the death o...

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5. Edgar Allen Poe

... one of the first to discern the tendency of the afe toward " the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused". In one of Poe's famous critical pieces, he recognized Hawthorne as on of our " few men of indisputable genius"; he went on to formulate his famous conception of the short story, which must be designed for " a single effect" and every word of which must be made to count. Edgar A. Poe was a very influential writer and his works ... experienced in consequence of contemplating the "beautiful". The tone of the Raven is one of sadness. Beauty of whatever kind, in its supre...

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