One of Hawthorne's best novels was The Scarlet Letter, which presents a steady and sad story of love and betrayal set against the Puritan backdrop of the 17th century, in New England. Nathaniel Hawthorne's authorial intentions were to be the first American writer to explore the hidden motivations of characters. His intentions and beliefs were to show people that witchcraft was not real and that the Puritans were paranoid. Even though he was of Puritan background, he hated them with a passion, he was ashamed of what his grandfather was, and he added the w to his name because of the shame of his history. Nathaniel Hawthorne wanted to present the Puritans with a negative stigma. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. Her family was descended from America's early Puritan settlers and had lived in Salem since the 1600s. One of her ancestors was a judge in the Salem witchcraft trials, during which many women were executed. Hawthorne's father was a ship captain, died when Nathaniel was 4, and his mother became a virtual recluse. Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, where his best friends Franklin Pierce, who later became President of the United States.Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer who was a master of allegorical and symbolic storytelling. One of the greatest fiction writers in American literature, he is best known for The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851). Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 and died in 1864. Between 1825 and 1836, Hawthorne worked as a writer and newspaper contributor. Hawthorne was a writer all his life. The Revue Démocratique published two dozen articles on him and his lifestyle. He wrote a large number of novels... in the middle of an article... but if you believe what others said, they lacked explanation and understanding of psychology. Most of the teenage girls behaved “out of the ordinary”, even though this was not tolerated. The Crucible is biased on a real story. This is the story of Nathaniel Hawthorne's grandfather, it shows what he was like and his involvement in the Salem trails. During the witch trials, there were many scapegoats in large groups of girls. John Hawthorne became a tyrant because all his power abused the judgment in the Salem witch trials. While everyone became hysterical from all the pressure. Everyone mentally became a mob to feel safer and stay safe. People led a difficult life, full of many dangers. These people were very superstitious and strongly believed in the Devil, which partly explains why the idea of ​​witchcraft, once suggested, took such a hold..