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A 5 page paper which the novel in terms of background, author, its intended audience, and how the novel addressed important historical issues of the time. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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October 2001 -- properly! Nathaniel Hawthorne hit his literary stride in the 1850s. The author, who was
closely associated with the New England landscape which was the home of his Puritan forefathers, had settled with his wife and children in Lenox, Massachusetts, where some of his most
critically acclaimed works were composed. His most commercially successful (not to mention scandalous) novel, The Scarlet Letter, was published in 1850, and he followed it up the following year
with a Gothic romance, The House of the Seven Gables. This was, perhaps, the most complex and for that reason misunderstood of all Hawthornes stories, because its tightly interwoven
plot considered issues of morality, family inheritance, greed, and legitimate property ownership (Johnson 83). Considering that the novel was written during a time of extreme discord on the American
home front, with tensions between the North and the South increasing as the chasms between differing cultural values intensified, The House of Seven Gables provides a haunting glimpse of a
country on the brink of war. The tensions confined within the walls of this old family house serve as a metaphor for the tumultuous relationship between the inhabitants of
Uncle Sams residence, later described by President Abraham Lincoln as a house divided. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 4, 1804, into a family deeply rooted in
Puritanism and New England politics (Baym 1220). His father was a sea captain who died when Hawthorne was four, and his mother created for him a protective and sequestered
environment consisting mostly of eighteenth-century literature (Baym 1220). For many years, young Nathaniel Hawthorne appeared to be blissfully lost in the past. After graduating from Maines Bowdoin College,
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