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Monster Essays - Nathaniel Hawthorne Weaves Dreams into Reality in Much of His 19th Century Prose
Nathaniel Hawthorne Weaves Dreams into Reality in Much of His 19th Century Prose
Nathaniel Hawthorne, a master of American fiction, often utilizes dreams within the annals of his writings to penetrate, explore and express his perceptions of the complex moral and spiritual conflicts that plague mankind. His clever, yet crucial purpose for using dreams is to represent, through symbolism, the human divergence conflict manifested in the souls of man during the firm Christian precepts of the Era in which he lived. As a visionary in an extremely conservative Puritanical society, he carefully and suc....
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