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The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne Life Experience Significance in American Literary History 1. Significant as a romantic writer 2. Significant for his themes 3. Significant for his style Important Works (4) Hawthorne’s Themes the consequences of pride, selfishness, and secret guilt the conflict between lighthearted and somber attitudes toward life the impingement of past (esp. the Puritan past) upon the present the futility of comprehensive social reforms the impossibility of eradicating sin from the human heart alienation and solitude nature and n