Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Blithedale Romance"

Nathaniel Hawthorne has become one of the more influential writers in American history since his death. The achievement of his writing abilities can be traced back to a time when he lived in a "utopian" society with many of the other influential authors of the mid-19th century. This "utopian" society was named Brook Farm. Hawthorne tended to use many real life situations and events to model much of his writing after. A few examples of this can be found in his novel, The Blithedale Romance as well as in some of his other works. Hawthorne molds the character Zenobia around the story and sentiments of his friend Margaret Fuller, uses Brook Farm’s masquerade picnic as a model for a chapter in Blithedale Romance, and relied on his personal experiences from his time spent at Brook Farm with other influential writers of his time to get ideas, themes, and characters for his stories.