2.  1804-1864
 Anti-Transcendentalist
• Evil = strong force in the world
• Gloomy outlook on life/mankind
 Bornin Salem, MA
 Puritan family
• Ancestor was a judge in Salem
witchcraft trials
 Hawthorne’s life & writing were
influenced by an inherited sense of
guilt; haunted by the cruelty of his
ancestors

3.  The Scarlet Letter
• Novel about sin, guilt, adultery
 The House of the Seven Gables
• Novel about guilt, atonement;
supernatural, witchcraft
 “The Minister’s Black Veil”
• Short story about secrets and sin

4. Astory with both a literal and symbolic
meaning
 Simple,usually short, story that teaches a
moral lesson
 Fable = animals
 Parable = human beings

5.  Something that has
meaning in itself while
also standing for
something greater
• Ex: In “The Minister’s Black
Veil,” there is a literal veil
covering his face, but it also
represents a deeper idea (a
symbolic meaning)