PPT-INTRODUCTION TO NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE and

THE SCARLET LETTER Hawthorne 18041864 The Scarlet Letter 1850 PURITAN ERA Midlate 1600s Salem Witch Trials 1692 Judge Hathorne Puritan Religious Enlightenment Mid 1700s Jonathan Edwards. 12 ed George Parsons Lathrop and Julian Hawthorne Cambridge Riverside Press 1883 Originally published in The Atlantic Monthly vol 10 no 57 July 1862 pp 43 61 brPage 2br brPage 3br brPage 4br e found one man however “The Birthmark”. “If you look for . perfection. you will never be satisfied.”. -. Anna Karenina. Tolstoy. PRE-READING DISCUSSION . Why do people change their appearance for others?. What factors influence a person’s body image?. “Young Goodman Brown,” “The Minister’s Black Veil,” “The Birth-Mark”. ENGL 2030: Experience of Literature—Fiction [Lavery/. Lauzon. ]. Nathaniel Hawthorne. The David Levine Version. ENGL 2030: Experience of Literature—Fiction [Lavery/. 1804-1864. Childhood. Born . July . 4,1804, . in . Salem. , . Massachusetts.. Parents were devout Puritans.. Mother gave birth alone while father was out at sea.. Father died when . Hawthorne was four . Young Goodman Brown. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Considered one of the greatest American writers, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864), is a direct product . of his . New England background. His father was a sea captain, who died when the boy was only four. Reared in . Hester Prynne did not now occupy precisely the same position in which we beheld her her ignominy. Years had come, and gone. Pearl was now seven years old. Her mother, with the scarlet letering in i The Scarlet Letter. Kristin Farr. 11. th. Grade English. SOL 11.3: Students will read and analyze relationships among American literature, history, and culture. a) Describe contributions of different cultures to the development of American literature. Born in Salem, Massachusetts . Puritan background & influence on writing . John . Hathorne. & Salem Witch Trials. Considered by many to be the most significant fiction writer of the antebellum period . The American Renaissance. Dr. David Lavery. Spring 2016. Nathaniel . Hawthorne (. 1804-1864). Nathaniel Hawthorne. the short story: . a work of fiction that can be read in one sitting and usually deals with a single, significant event and its aftermath. Born in Salem, Mass. on July 4, 1804. His father, a sea captain, died when he was four. His great-grandfather was a judge for the witchcraft trials in Salem. His young life was spent living in a relative’s home, which he later called “Castle Dismal.”. The Scarlet Letter. Puritanism/. Scarlet Letter. Timeline. 1620-1628. 1638. 1642. 1645. 1649. 1655. 1692. 1850. In the novel:. . -Ch. 1-4 public scaffold scene Pearl=baby in mother’s arms. -Scene at Governor Bellingham’s . Was one of two great novelists of the mid-. ninteenth. century (the other being Melville). Born in Salem, Mass., where his family had lived for six generations. Earliest ancestors were Puritans. . John . Vickie Greenfield, . Kelcie. Knapp, Jackson Williamson. “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”. .. a. nd died . on May 18, 1864 in Plymouth, New Hampshire. .. . Hawthorne’s . connection to Salem haunted him; therefore, he took the ‘w’ out of his name to disassociate himself with the witch trials.