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She remained not less pale than ever; but the birthmark with every breath that came and went, lost somewhat of its former distinctness. Its presence had been awful; its departure was more awful still. Watch the stain of the rainbow fading out the sky, and you will know how that mysterious symbol passed away.
- Rappaccini’s Daughter
- His Beautiful Bouquet Was Already Beginning to Wither in Her Grasp
- Their Gorgeousness Seemed Fierce, Passionate, and Even Unnatural
A young man, named Giovanni Guasconti, came, very long ago, from the more southern region of Italy, to pursue his studies at the University of Padua. Giovanni, who had but a scanty supply of gold ducats in his pocket, took lodgings in a high and gloomy chamber of an old edifice which looked not unworthy to have been the palace of a Paduan noble, an...
Beatrice now strayed carelessly through the garden, approaching closer beneath Giovanni’s window, so that he was compelled to thrust his head quite out of its concealment in order to gratify the intense and painful curiosity which she excited. At this moment there came a beautiful insect over the garden wall; it had, perhaps, wandered through the c...
How often is it the case that, when impossibilities have come to pass and dreams have condensed their misty substance into tangible realities, we find ourselves calm, and even coldly self-possessed, amid circumstances which it would have been a delirium of joy or agony to anticipate! Fate delights to thwart us thus. Passion will choose his own time...
Although not as well-known as ‘Young Goodman Brown’ or ‘The Minister’s Black Veil’, ‘The Birthmark’ is an intriguing tale which, like those more famous stories, contains ambiguous symbolism within its straightforward plot. You can read ‘The Birthmark’ here before proceeding to our summary and analysis of Hawthorne’s story below.
Mar 4, 2017 · Sylvia KarasuNew York City, New York, United States In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Birthmark, 1 Aylmer, “a man of science” leaves the somber, factory-like atmosphere of his laboratory to marry the beautiful Georgiana. Aylmer “had devoted himself, however, too unreservedly to scientific studies ever to be weaned from them by any secondary passion,” and seems to
Hawthorne's perplexity illustrates a leading fea-ture of the cultural construction of gender, the way in which perceptions of human reality are concert-ed-and disconcerted-by the systems of meaning through which gender is construed. Hawthorne's mind was the arena, in this respect, of an unresolv-able contest of significations. The conceptions of
Mar 22, 2024 · Young Goodman Brown caught hold of a tree for support, being ready to sink down on the ground, faint and overburdened with the heavy sickness of his heart. He looked up to the sky, doubting whether there really was a heaven above him. Yet there was the blue arch, and the stars brightening in it.
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several shrines of Hawthorne's genius, said she knew a girl who would like to poison him because of such of these mockeries as touched her ancestors. There was, in fact, no love lost between Hawthorne and his birthplace, but probably neither knew how much was their mutual debt. If he conferred deathless renown upon her, with something very like ...
