Part one of term paper
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a defining writer of the nineteenth century romantic period. Hawthorne used characteristics of nature to symbolize the characters in his book, their actions and their surroundings. A young Nathaniel Hawthorne favored also well known romantic writers such as Ann Radcliffe and Charles Brockden Brown. Hawthorne’s abili ...

Part two of term paper
... Letter Hawthorne personifies nature to describe Hester and Pearl. Hawthorne states, “Her sin, her ignominy, were the roots which she had struck into the soil.”(Hawthorne, 83) Hawthorne describes Pearl as he states, “But, the child unaccustomed to the touch or familiarity of any but her mother, escaped through the open window, and stood on the upper step, looking like a wild tropical bird of rich plumage ready to take flight into the upper air.”(Hawthorne, 111) In the first passage Hawthorne ...