Nathaniel Hawthorne's Use Of Manipulative Diction

Hawthorne uses manipulative diction to show his disdain towards the American government (Such as tenderness- “has no great tenderness”, fling off- “fling off her nestlings”, scratch/dab- “scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak”, rankling wound- “rankling wound from her barbed arrows”) to influence the reader to see how moody and dangerous the government can be. His vicious tone enforces the idea that the government hides behind a dangerous facade putting up a front that it is forgiving while in all actuality it is controlling and wrathful (again “but she has no great tenderness” implying that previously he had mentioned the misconception of the government being tender). The over glorified American government is represented by the metaphor of