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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Two authors of Dark Romanticism, both Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe explore in their writings the mystical and the melancholy aspects of America's Puritan thought. In their works, they...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The moral of Nathaniel Hawthorne's tale, "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," relates to the development of a person's moral character and feelings about old age. In Dr. Heidegger's experiment, in which...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Shrouded in the ambiguity attached to evil and its effects upon the human consciousness, "The Hollow of the Three Hills" acts as a precursor to many of Hawthorne's later narratives as this story...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne's most direct link to the Salem Witch Trials was a family one. His great-great-grandfather, John Hathorne, was a judge during the trials. Hawthorne considered the Salem Witch...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The answer to your question is that the short story "David Swan" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is set along a well-traveled road. David is on his way to Boston and chooses to rest in a quiet glen next to...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Gothic themes can include horror, terror, the supernatural, spiritual, melancholy, and the imaginary. In "The Haunted Mind," the narrator contemplates a realm between sleep and being awake. He is...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Denis Diderto, a philosopher of the Enlightenment, once declared, "The truest history is full of falsehoods, but the romance is full of truths." Certainly, the Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Celestial Railroad" is a parody of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress in which the allegory's main character, Christian, appears in a dream to the author. Like Bunyan's...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
In both novels, Hawthorne develops Dark Romanticism in his suggestion that evil is a malevolent force from which there can be no easy escape. Transcendentalist thinkers like Emerson and Thoreau...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The narrator wakes up but then sinks into the covers and has a chill, not from cold, but from the idea of a frozen world outside. He retreats to the warmth of the bed. But this confinement makes...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
One element linking themes in Romanticism and Gothic literature is the power of the imagination. In more benevolent works, the imagination is praised for its ability to link the thinker/writer with...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
In Hawthorne's allegorical story, New England is composed of two groups of settlers, the residents of Mary Mount and the Puritans. In this new land, "[J]ollity and gloom were contending for an...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The primary similarity between Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and "Young Goodman Brown" is that both stories deal with the basic conflict of good versus evil. In each story, an innocent...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
As the Enotes study guide on Romanticism points out, the literary movement (which in America is more commonly referred to as American Transcendentalism) stressed the importance of personal...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
In "The Birthmark," the scientist, Aylmer, fixates on his wife's one imperfection--a hand-shaped birthmark that mars her otherwise beautiful face. When Georgiana, the wife, turns pale, the mark...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Whereas Washington Irving's folk tales are characterized by a wry humor with touches of mystery and sentimentality, Nathaniel Hawthorne's narratives possess a darkly meditative and uncertain tone,...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
In "The Minister's Black Veil," Hawthorne creates a symbol of the black cloth that Mr. Hooper wears over his face. The subject of his first sermon upon donning the veil, as well as what he says to...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne is actually considered by critics at large to be a "Dark Romantic" rather than a Romantic, though of course it is recognised that this fits into the wider definition of...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
In The Devil in the Manuscript, Hawthorne conveys the message that an author’s words will endure rejection and criticism by others in society and by the author himself to live on with inexorable...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
One thing worth being aware of is the degree to which fiction and reality are woven together across the entirety of this particular story. After all, if you've read or listened to professional...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
In this story, I can see many figures of speech. Here are two of them. First, there is hyperbole. This is a figure of speech where a speaker exaggerates some quality or characteristic of some...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
In The Scarlet Letter, it is Hester who keeps this secret; her daughter, Pearl, learns the information much later. The man who goes by the name of Roger Chillingworth is actually Hester Prynne’s...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The principle archetypes, representing the three principal characters, are the Old Crone, the loving Mother, and the wronged though once valiant Warrior and father. Archetype theory holds that...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" is full of symbols; in fact, it is a great example of an allegory, a literary work that operates on both literal and symbolic levels. You could choose...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 and died in 1864 in Salem Massachusetts. His family had strong ties with Puritanism. And one of his relatives was actually involved in the Salem Witch Trials....
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne's story of Young Goodman Brown was a story of morality and hypocrisy. This short story is a perfect example of the seventeenth-century Puritan society. Hawthorne wrote the story as a...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Although Hawthorne is often considered a novelist, he thought of himself as a writer of “romances.” “Romances,” in Hawthorne’s sense, are less “realistic” than novels. “Romances” are more...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
In his story “Drowne's Wooden Image,” Nathaniel Hawthorne includes a prominent artist of his day, John Singleton Copley (1738–1815). The Boston-based Copley offers a critical evaluation of the...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The effects of the secret sin motif in "The Minister's Black Veil," "The Birthmark," and "Rappaccini's Daughter" are all disastrous, with the bearers of these secret sins becoming ostracized and...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
You are writing a research paper which utilizes literary criticism and you have to use several "non-internet" sources. The term is a little tricky because I cannot tell whether your teacher wants...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
I think Hawthorne does this to prove he has gone to great lengths to research for his writing before he put it in context. He hopes to validate and give credibility to the expertise he has in...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The good news for you is that most of Nathaniel Hawthorne's major writings are quite similar in most literary senses; however, the final determination of your three points of comparison should...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
One of the ways in which Hawthorne's stories can be seen as a response to the political freedom embraced as a result of the American Revolution lies in his emotional explorations. The framers...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The scarlet letter “A” which Hester is forced to wear upon her breast is only a sign or accusation that she committed adultery, but the little girl is undeniable circumstantial evidence, living...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne's story "Young Goodman Brown" has several overtly supernatural elements. Its dreamlike and supernatural elements are the first clues that we should interpret the story...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Several factors are believed to have contributed to the dark tone found in many of Hawthorne's writings. First, Hawthorne grew up in a very strictly religious environment in New England, something...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
One of the most influential Hawthorne biographers is Terrence Martin, who wrote Hawthorne in 1965. Other notable biographies include Nathaniel by Harold Bloom, and Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne tended to write historically and about topics as a result of his work experiences. Like most writers he performed many side jobs to make ends meet and his writings left a greater mark...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The background to Hawthorne's understanding of natural law is both classical and Christian. In the fifth century, philosophers and sophists distinguished between "physis" or "nature/natural law"...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was what is termed an anti-Romantic, or a dark Romantic. Dark Romanticism is a reaction to Transcendentalism, a belief that seems too optimistic to such writers as Hawthorne,...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
If we look at the third paragraph of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Maypole of Merry Mount," we can see very clearly that he is not describing real animals dancing around the Maypole but rather men...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the most significant American writers of the Romantic period. His dark outlook on humanity, revealed both in his short stories and 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, run...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
After Hawthorne graduated from college he spent a long period in seclusion working on his writing. He had decided to become a freelance writer. He was to be one of the first such independent,...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
One major theme of this story is the idea that human beings are a mixture of good and evil and that we cannot exist without one or the other. We are, by our natures, both. Beatrice, for example,...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The central conflict in this story is Aylmer's fight against all that is natural. He is a failed scientist who is constantly attempting to "improve" and "fix" all that...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Not unlike the Reverend Dimmesdale, Nathaniel Hawthorne was plagued by a shadow of guilt which darkened his life. Hawthorne's guilt found its source in his Puritanical ancestors, such as Judge...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Industrial Revolution introduced new manufacturing ideas and processes to the United States, Europe, and England between the years 1760 and 1840. Mechanized factory systems became the means of...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The central background to the Hawthorne plant studies revolved around the issues of worker treatment and productivity changes. At the time of the study, early 20th Century America had become fully...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The symbol of the forest in "Young Goodman Brown" is one where exploration within the individual takes place. It is a symbol where Goodman Brown enters as one man and leaves as another. The woods...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
When the minister, Parson Hooper, appears at the meeting house wearing a black veil over his face, his parishioners experience a number of effects. Firstly, Goodman Gray wonders if it really is...
