1. “Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is
always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit
down quietly, may alight upon you.” –Nathaniel
Hawthorne
2. Nathanial Hathorne (father) and Elizabeth
Clarke Manning (Mother)
John Hathorne (great great grandfather)
One of the Judges in the Salem Witch Trials
Sophia Peabody (wife)
Una (1st Child)
Julian (2nd child)
Rose (3rd Child)
3. Raised with Puritan beliefs
Great Great Grandfather whom was a judge on
the Salem Witch trials
After graduating from College changed the
spelling of his last name.
Transgressions of his beliefs was the subject of
many of his writings
Created a new Genre of writing called Dark
Romanticism
4. Sin
Guilt
Evil
Adultery
Super natural
Witch craft
5. The Scarlett Letter
Based in 17th Century Boston
Talks about Adultery and the punishment a young
woman faces for her crime
Published in 1850
The House of the Seven Gables
Written in 1851
Based in 19th Century New England
Talks about a family living in New England that are
supposedly witches but blames the house of doing
witchcraft.
6.
7. What other dungeon is so dark as one's own
heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! –
Nathaniel Hawthorne
No man, for any considerable period, can wear
one face to himself and another to the
multitude, without finally getting bewildered
as to which may be true. -Nathaniel
Hawthorne
8. Moncur,Micheal “Nathaniel Hawthorne’s
Quotes” quotationspage.com 1994-2013.
27, February 2013
“Nathaniel Hawthorne” Wikipedia. 25 February
2013. 27th February 2013
SalemwitchMuesum.com 2012. 27th February, 2013