Mesmerism and the Patterns Witnessed throughout Hawthorne's works Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short stories and novels are laden with Mesmeristic Imagery. He incorporates Mesmerism to add an element of the supernatural to his works. Also, Mesmerism depicts a power struggle between a man and a woman. The man acts as Mesmerizer and knowingly takes advantage of the woman for deceitful purposes. Mesmerism and it’s root, animal magnetism, are incorporated throughout Hawthorne’s short stories and …showed first 75 words of 1286 total…

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