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power in Hawthorne's novel: the subtle and fascinating interweaving of the allegorical-symbolic threads of meaning to form an intellectual and moral scheme so complete and so intellectually satisfying that to contemplate it is virtually to yield to it as an authentic picture of what may be called, for want of a better phrase, the condition of man.
Here in the forest, she is free and in harmony with nature. Her image in the brook is a common symbol of Hawthorne's. He often uses a mirror to symbolize the imagination of the artist; Pearl is a product of that imagination. When Dimmesdale confesses his sin in the light of the sun, Pearl is free to become a human being.
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Young Goodman Brown’ (1835) is one of the most famous stories by the American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Inspired in part by the Salem witch craze of 1692, the story is a powerful exploration of the dark side of human nature. How Hawthorne loads his story with such power is…
symbolic territory of the novel, exploring each one separately. In doing so, we are prompted to offer an appropriate interpretation of the symbolic language embodied in Hawthorne's plot creativity. Key words: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Symbol, The Scarlet Letter, The Letter ‘A’, Rosebush, Forest, Meteor. Introduction
- Humanity as Matter: “The Birth-Mark” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter”
- Life as Matter: Lawrence’s and Darwin’s Materialist Sciences
- Vivacious Materialism
“The Birth-Mark” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter” can be read as a kind of allegory of an attempt to strip humanity of its material basis. In the former story, soon after the scientist Aylmer marries Georgiana, he becomes appalled by the tiny, hand-shaped red birthmark on her cheek and urges her to drink a potion that he has concocted to remove it. This...
Hawthorne’s authorial gestures in “The Birth-mark” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter” oppose the traditional notion of ethereal humanity and proffer a totally different concept of life as a material entity. This resonates with the newly emerging scientific trends in the nineteenth century toward rejecting the older dogma of human spirituality and material...
Now we will more closely explore the particular nature of the materialism that Hawthorne has in common with Lawrence and Darwin. It should be worth noting that this thinking, though treating life as a physiological system and nothing more, nonetheless never reduces life or more particularly human life to mere, machine-like matter. In fact, far from...
Marble Faun”, believes that Hawthorne’s double look – a dilemma between clear look and a tragic look- come together in a visualized and noticeable picture. That is the unity which is in fact symbolic, to some degree allegorical, lively and independent. What Ramsey (2006) found was a specific type of unity in Hawthorne’s works.
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The writing style of Nathaniel Hawthorne is deeply symbolic and slightly dark-humored as befitting for a historic puritan reality that he mostly sought to portray. Hawthorne’s writing style is well grounded in traditional romance, and his scenic form - which includes descriptions of cultural country living, nature, troubled and haun...
