| nathaniel hawthorne definitions |
| # | Definition | Sets |
| 1 | the scarlet letter | 12 sets |
| 2 | originally a transcendentalist; later rejected them and became a leading anti-transcendentalist. he was a descendant of puritan settlers. the scarlet letter shows the hypocrisy and insensitivity of new england puritans by showing their cruelty to a woman who has committed adultery and is forced to wear a scarlet "a". | 7 sets |
| 3 | wrote the scarlet letter; originally a transcendentalist but later became a leading anti-transcendentalist. | 5 sets |
| 4 | wrote the scarlet letter | 5 sets |
| 5 | the minister's black veil | 4 sets |
| 6 | romanticism | 4 sets |
| 7 | "young goodman brown" | 3 sets |
| 8 | scarlet letter | 3 sets |
| 9 | young goodman brown | 3 sets |
| 10 | novelist and short story writer—works often set in puritan new england—explored guilt and other dark aspects of humanity | 2 sets |
| 11 | united states writer of novels and short stories mostly on moral themes (1804-1864) the sarlet letter author | 2 sets |
| 12 | originally a transcendentalist; later rejected them and became a leading anti-trascendentalist. he was a descendant of puritan settlers. the scarlet letter shows the hypocrisy and insensitivity of new england puritans by showing their cruelty to a woman who has committed adultery and is forced to wear a scarlet "a". | 2 sets |
| 13 | romanticism--dark romanticism: scarlet letter; the minister's black veil; dark romantic | 2 sets |
| 14 | the great carbuncle | 2 sets |
| 15 | the blithedale romance | 2 sets |
| 16 | scarlett letter | 2 sets |
| 17 | author of a novel about the early new england practice of requiring adulterers to wear the letter "a" | 2 sets |
| 18 | wrote "the birth-mark," the scarlet letter; works are considered part of the romantic movement (specifically dark romancism) | 2 sets |
| 19 | the scarlet letter and other novels of his questioned the intolerance and conformity in american life | 2 sets |
| 20 | author of the scarlet letter | 2 sets |
| 21 | the sacrlet letter | 2 sets |
| 22 | author from massachusetts who wrote the scarlet letter | 2 sets |
| 23 | born in salem massachusetts, famous for his books: "the scarlet letter" and "house of seven gables". | 2 sets |
| 24 | united states writer of novels and short stories mostly on moral themes (1804-1864), romanticism--dark romanticism: scarlet letter; the minister's black veil; dark romantic | 2 sets |
| 25 | the house of seven gables | 2 sets |
| 26 | author of "dr. heidegger's experiment" | 2 sets |
| 27 | wrote "scarlet letter" | 1 set |
| 28 | romantic | 1 set |
| 29 | wrote the 1st psychological novel | 1 set |
| 30 | the scarlet letter, the house of seven gables, the ministers black veil, rappacini's daughter, young goodman brown, the birthmark | 1 set |
| 31 | writer who expressed disillusionment with transcendentalism and the brooks farm experiment; discussed these views in novels. | 1 set |
| 32 | "the house of seven gables" | 1 set |
| 33 | he wrote the scarlet letter | 1 set |
| 34 | gothic, young goodman brown, anti-transcendentalist | 1 set |
| 35 | romanticism in america | 1 set |
| 36 | transcendentalist author, scarlet letter | 1 set |
| 37 | the house of the seven gables | 1 set |
| 38 | an author from ma. he wrote books which explored the puritan heritage of new englanders. | 1 set |
| 39 | grandfather was a judge at the salem witch trials, transcendentalist in the tradition of emerson and thoreau | 1 set |
| 40 | "the birthmark" | 1 set |