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summary- A Little Machanic by Nathaniel Hawthorne​

Answer 1

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reading in American colonial history

confirmed his basically ambivalent attitude

toward the American past, particularly

the form that Puritanism took in the New

England colonies. Especially interested in the

intensity of the Puritan-Cavalier rivalry, the

Puritan inclination to credit manifestations

of the supernatural such as witchcraft, and

the psychology of the struggle for liberation

from English rule, Hawthorne explored these

themes in some of his earliest stories. As

they did for his Puritan ancestors, sin and

guilt preoccupied Hawthorne, who, in his

move from Salem to Concord, encountered

what he considered the facile dismissal

of the problem of evil by the Concord

intellectuals. He developed a deeply

ambivalent moral attitude that colored the

situations and characters of his fiction.

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