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1. • • Hawthorne's use of biblical allusions and imagery also contributes to the richness and complexity of his writing. His stories are filled with references to biblical stories and characters, such as Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and the Garden of Eden, which add depth and resonance to his narratives.
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     Impact of the Bible in The Major Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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   Feb 3, 2012 · This work provides a sustained study of the biblical contexts of Nathaniel Hawthorne's fiction. I begin by establishing Hawthorne's familiarity with and reverence for the Bible. I then explore the connections between a selection of his characters and the biblical figures they are named after.

   • Author: Conor Michael Walsh

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3. www.thegospelcoalition.org › article › darkening-ofDarkening of the Light: Hawthorne and the Post-Puritan Conscience

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   It is tempting to view Hawthorne in this modern era as one whose stories—featuring such taboo topics as adultery and deception—helped divest post-Puritan New England from its spiritual conscience, its theological legacy. The jeremiads of former days had fallen silent, and with them the larger-than-life preachers who ruled the conscience. It is undo...

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   We might think that Hawthorne, with his contemporary eminence (a journal has been devoted to him), went from strength to strength as a literary auteur. In reality, over the next four decades, Hawthorne lived a rambling existence not uncommon to writers. With his wife, Sophia, and three children (Una, Julian, and Rose), he traveled to find work, liv...

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   Whatever you conclude about Hawthorne, he is a figure worthy of study and contemplation. No mere scion of an enlightened age, he seemed to embrace the life of a post-Puritan while shrinking back from the proudly liberated character of this age. Not for him the triumphal narcissism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the warming glow of Transcendentalist dev...

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   Hawthorne speaks of a “storm of fire and brimstone”, of “true faith” and the “righteous man.” Like Hester Prynne’s underlying crucifixion in The Scarlet Letter, “ The Man of Adamant ” presents a similar flavor of religious themes and symbols through the bible’s own words and ideas.

5. www.semanticscholar.org › paper › NathanielNathaniel Hawthorne and his biblical contexts - Semantic Scholar

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   This study provides a focused and substantial exploration of the biblical contexts of Hawthorne's fiction. Through these biblical contexts one can gain additional insight to Hawthorne's artistic and moral concerns as expressed in his writing.

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   May 21, 2007 · Nathaniel Hawthorne was profoundly influenced by Puritan thought and Puritan typology. He was also deeply influenced by his family history, especially the persecutorial actions of his ancestors William and John Hawthorne, who hanged witches, massacred Indians, and whipped religious dissidents.

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   How did Nathaniel Hawthorne influence the Bible?

   • 336 The majority of criticism and scholarship devoted to the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne takes for granted the relationship between Hawthorne and the Bible, focusing instead upon theology and philosophy. This work proposes that the Bible was an important and pervasive influence in Hawthorne's fiction.

   Nathaniel Hawthorne and his biblical contexts

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   How did Hawthorne use the Bible?

   • The historical aspect of the Bible gave depth to Hawthorne's creativity. The moral aspect of the Bible provided themes and ideas around which Hawthorne could craft his own stories.

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   Did Hawthorne write a book?

   • It was published in 1828, “at his own expense, but Hawthorne disapproved of it and tried to destroy all copies.” He did continue to write and started to publish more stories and gain more credibility with his work. However, writing did not bring in much money, and he wasforced to work as a customs agent (Olsen).

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   What did Hawthorne read?

   • Hawthorne read the college’s required texts with interest—Locke on reason, Paley on evidentialist Christianity, and Herodotus on history—but according to biographer Brenda Wineapple found equal pleasure in his status as “a charter member of the secret Pot-8-O Club, dedicated to weekly poems” and no small amount of illicit alcohol.

   Darkening of the Light: Hawthorne and the Post-Puritan Conscience

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   Did Hawthorne break with Puritan theology?

   • It is undoubtedly true that Hawthorne broke with Puritan theology and mores. He flirted with Transcendentalism (though he was never much of a joiner) and his funeral was held in a Unitarian church. He had no stomach for the wrath of God, and the concept of damnation set his teeth on edge even when a boy.

   Darkening of the Light: Hawthorne and the Post-Puritan Conscience

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   Was Hawthorne a humanist?

   • But in Hawthorne’s writings, as in New England society more broadly, we see too that there was no immediate flight from Puritanism to secular humanism. Hawthorne wrestled mightily with spiritual and theological themes, with guilt and sin playing major roles in his body of work.

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8. www.semanticscholar.org › paper › Reflection-onReflection on Hawthorne's Use of Biblical Allusions and ...

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   Nov 1, 2019 · Nathaniel Hawthorne's master work The Scarlet Letter revealed the impact of The Bible on him. The novel is a powerful tale of passion, Puritanism and revenge, which is treated as the foremost romantic classic of American literature, and is truly one of the greatest triumphs in literary history.