Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest Anti-Transcendentalist writers of all time. He utilized his writings to express his dark, gloomy outlook on life.         Hawthorne, a descendant of a puritan family, was born in Salem, Massachusetts. Some of his ancestors included a judge known for the harsh persecution of Quakers, and another judge who played an important role in the Salem witchcraft trials. Hawthorne's attitude was molded by a sense of guilt, which he traced …showed first 75 words of 868 total…

…showed last 75 words of 868 total…has brought Dimmesdale to a death of "triumphant ignominy" on the scaffold, has victimized the victimizer -- Chillingsworth. Hawthorne begins and ends with the letter, which encompasses and transcends all its individual meanings, which signifies, totally and finally, The Scarlet Letter itself."         Shown by his past, and his feelings toward it, by the books that he wrote and the life that he led, Nathaniel Hawthorne was an Anti-Transcendentalist in the purest sense of the word.