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.

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