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[[File:Title_page_for_The_Scarlet_Letter.jpg|thumb|center|Title page for The Scarlet Letter.]]

In the late 19th century in the United States, two authors will be one of the many to start the new tragic genre of American Tragedies. In 1850-51, both Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville had created the embodiment of the tragic form just when America was booming with optimism and vying for materialistic possession. Their novels <i>[[The Scarlet Letter]]</i> and <i>[[Moby Dick]]</i> will be the first of many that will succeed them in this genre. The trend continued into the 20th century playing up the pathos of the victims, who are sometimes insignificant, only for them to be engulfed by the unmatching force of the significant being who ends up destroying the victim in the process. Only the novels of William Faulkner, in their depth and powerful assault on basic tragic themes, give memorization of traditional tragic values long forgotten in his "Saga of the South".