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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
Nathaniel Hawthorne 1) By mid-life he was a great writer. 2) It was as if his dark insight into the human heart had cast gloom into his won. 3) Hawthorne's darkness thought to lie in illustrious ancestors . 4) Puritan New England as his setting . 5) Best known for The Scarlet Letter. 6) Original nam is Hathorne he added the (w) when he started to publish his work . 7) He wrote about adultery, heresy, and witch craft. 8) He was under the Amenistrationg of Franklin Pierce . 9) In 1841, he paticipates in the Utopian community of Brook Farm in West Roxbury. In 1864 Nathaniel Hawthorne dies at Plymouth New Hampshire on May 19.
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment : The names of the Dr.. Heidegger's friends are not just made up names. Heidegger gets his name from John James Heidegger a manager of an opera house. The Widow Wycherley comes form a guy, William Wycherly, who left a widow a lady younger than he was. Colonel Killigrew gets his name from Charles killigrew, a master of the revels. Mr.Gascoigne has his name from a famous poet, George Gascoigne. Also from Sir Thomas Gascoigne an actor. Mr. Medbourne, Matthew Medbourne. A translator of Moliere. Sylvia Ward., his lover. Comes from the name Joshua Ward a quack doctor. Famous for ''Ward's Remedy.'' Pills that killed as much as it cured.
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