Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne, a man who personified a literary battle between good and evil, had an ambiguous and unique writing style that was greatly advanced for his time. Although literary works such as, The Scarlet Letter, Young Goodman Brown, and The House of Seven Gabels, have apparent themes showing Nathaniel Hawthorne's obsession with ancestral secret, guilt, and sin, perhaps the greatest ambiguities of Hawthorne literary career are the factors that fueled his writing style. …

…account all of the examples supporting Hawthorne's literature being spawned from the theory of family systems, I believe Nathaniel Hawthorne suffered numerous behavioral irregularities with in his family structure which served as a driving force in his writing. All the sins, secret, and guilt past from generation to generation weighed heavily on Hawthorne, and he used that to create the guilt filled novels thick with allegory that has made him know as one of America's