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REAL LIFE EXPERIENCES IN NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE’S WORKS
Rakhmanova Viktoriya
Uzbekistan State World Languages University
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12515823
INTRODUCTION
Real life experiences are essential in literature because they are the foundation
of what makes it enduring, relevant, and powerful. Real life experiences are
crucial to literature for the following reasons:
Universality: Real emotions like love, grief, treachery, happiness, and difficulty
are universal in nature. Readers from many origins, eras, and cultures may
relate to these issues. Through delving into these core experiences, literature
serves as a bridge that unites people from different backgrounds and help hem
discover points of agreement.
Emotional resonance: Readers moved frequently to tears by literature that
explore important real experiences. Readers are able to form a strong emotional
bond with characters who are experiencing comparable hardships
or victories, which can have a long-lasting effect.
Understanding the real condition: Literature may help us understand the
complexity of the real situation. Through in-depth examination of pivotal real
events, writers may illuminate the incentives, longings, apprehensions, and goals
that shape human conduct. Readers may better comprehend themselves and the
intricacies of life by gaining a greater insight of human nature.
Catharsis: Both the writer and the reader may find catharsis in writing about
real events. People can find relief, healing, and closure by using storytelling to
tackle challenging emotions and experiences. This cathartic process has the
potential to be transforming and restorative.
Real life experiences are fundamental to literature because they provide the
framework for gripping narratives, deep understanding of the human condition,
and emotional resonance. Literature is an essential tool for examining what it is
to be human since it may inspire, challenge, reassure, and stimulate readers via
the exploration of these universal themes. Every human experience has
meaning. In actuality, writing also has the ability to immortalize trivial human
events.
THE SCARLET LETTER
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 4th July in 1804 and was died in 19th May in
1864. He wrote novels and short stories. His literary works delivered the
massage about religion, morality and history. His family lived in Salem,
Massachusetts, where he was born and they lived there for a long time there. He
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entered the college of Bowdoin then he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1824.
After a year he received his degree. Fanshawe is his first book which was
released in 1828. Next, he decided to publish his work. In 1837 he wrote a
number of additional short stories into his Twice-Told Tales. He asked Sophia
Peadiv to marry him in 1842. Having worked at the Boston Custom House he
joined Brook. He joined to the transcendentalist team of Brook
Farm and worked at the Boston Custom House before he got married to Peadiv
in the same year when he asked her to marry him. Firstly they lived in Concord,
Massachuests’ The Old Manse. After a couple of years they leave for Salem in the
Berkshires, and again they moved back to their initial location. In 1850, a
number of fresh books were published after the publication of The Scarlet
Letter. Hawthorne’s family had worked as political appointment as counsels,
then they traveled through Europe. They come back to Concord in 1860.
Hawthorne was passed away in 19th May in 1864.
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter is can be a vivid example of one
of his works as he used his real life experiences in this novel. ”A writer should
include all of his premises and overviews and of course his own experiences in
his works” says Gustave Flaubert. Due to his heritage of Puritan Hawthorne had
an unusual perspective about people in Puritan and controlled the setting of The
Scarlet Letter. His great desire toward reading classic literature had influenced
in his works. According to the collections of his mother and his initial years
Hawthorne gave a strong and lovely image of Hester in The Scarlet Letter. Pearl
is one of the character in his works who was the effect of his later life. Characters
such as evil, pride, free choice and fate, guilt, the dark side of human nature were
the central theme in his novels.
The Scarlet Letter was the inspiration of the history and experience of
Hawthorne’s family. The main reason is that he tried to portray a real image of
the times through portraying a real location and accurate philosophies, he wrote
on his own experiences. The writer tried to dedicate his life to literature and was
solitary person. He lived in New England as he became an adult. There is the
descriptive sentence toward Hawthorne by Robert Spiller. “We can imagine New
England without Hawthorne. However, we can not see the Hawthorne without
New England” Robert Spiller claims. As a result, Hawthorne’s real life and his
writings were coincides with New England’s
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culture. Because of the effect The Scarlet Letter was set by Hawthorne in the
early New England colony. He described the setting as a time in the history of
New England.
Those discrete components gathered together to create The Scarlet Letter. As
the author included his opinions and real experiences in his novel, readers were
able to be closer to the atmosphere in the novel. As a result, The Scarlet Letter
became one of the famous works in literature of America.
According to the Gustave Flaubert “The author be like God is over the universe
in his writings present everywhere and invisible nowhere”. One of the common
activity between fiction writers is the expression of their own ideas and opinions
in their novels. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the book
which is written according to the author’s real life experiences. This book is one
of the famous novel that describes Puritan life. The protagonist in this novel is
Hester Prynne. She wear the red letter “A” on her chest to display her shame to
the folk. She lives her whole life by paying for her sins. The book is the first
example that portrays the hard lifestyle of Puritan. This book is a vivid
examination of never-ending fight with pride, guilt and sin of human nature. The
Scarlet Letter shows Hawthorne’s own beliefs by different themes.
CONCLUSION
It is difficult to imagine literature without real life experiences. As the literature
is a reflected by reality, success is the result of real life experiences. The Scarlet
Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is given as an example as it describes the
judgements that people faced in their everyday life. In addition, there is shown
the real life in New England. The special part of life of Hawthorne was spent on
to reject the Puritans. Because, he never liked the way that the problems are
tackled. So, The Scarlet Letter was the result of the author’s premises toward
Puritans.
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